On one of the last days with snow, train 28N, a detour due to a derailment elsewhere on the NS Line, crosses the Vermilion River in Vermilion, Ohio.

NS 11Z passes the N&W CPLs at Bentonville with spring quickly arriving. Canon 6Dii, 75mm at ISO 400 and f/5.6, Canon 75-300.

15T rounds a curve just south of Riverton passing a nice grove of cherry trees that are blossoming in the sweet evening light.

A super late 15T heads south in the late evening light, passing the "other" side of the Compton trestle. Most pictures of this bridge, one of the longest in the area, are a morning/ ear... (more)

Just before sunset, 15T heads south across the "Overall" trestle along US 340. 25A had a unit blow a turbo and K89, the Front Royal shifter's power was used. 15T had to set a unit off ... (more)

289 heads south across the Shenandoah River with the out of service section of the B-Line quite obvious in the foreground. The diamond at Riverton, where the Southern and N&W met, was last in ser... (more)

Heading south for Two Harbors, MN as the last light of the day casts an orange glow on the western horizon.

Coming through blue hour on a winter day.

A rolling steam bank when the conditions are right moving iron ore pellets fresh out of the furnace of the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Heading north on the CN Missabe Sub to load iron ore pellets on Christmas Eve.

An NS manifest at Madison turning south toward East St. Louis.

283 southbound over the Pacolet River at Converse, just north of Spartanburg.

NS 289 heads south through the ruins of the Riverton Corporation's former lime plant. In 2012 my demolition crew scrapped most of the plant including a conveyor over the NS line. The plant used ... (more)

Racing toward a crew change in Bristol.

NS 24X detours on the Port Reading Secondary. The leader was rebuilt from C44-9W NS 9279 in May 2022. Behind the leader are C44-9W locomotives NS 9811 and NS 9911. On this weekend, freight trains ... (more)