The engineer throtles up and a cloud of smoke rises as the OCS begins its climb out of the Potomac River Valley at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Behind the OCS, to the right, is the Rumsey Monumen... (more)

Norfolk Southern 6786 and Norfolk Southern 2638 head south across the Potomac River with a string of coal cars in the last light of the day.

Southbound pig with an OLS painted leader, rolls through the cut by the old station.

One of NS's Operation Lifesaver units rolls through a crossing and past a church in Shepherdstown on a southbond intermodal train.

Spring heat and the use of a long lens with a narrow focusing plane can create an interesting effect. Witness this Conrail Blue EMD leading a string of Top Gons bound for the Pocahontas Coal field... (more)

Hotshot intermodel 203 holds up all of the afternoon commuters trying to get home in Shepherdstown.

The patch on this ex Conrail motor looks like a "Milk Stash".

The newest locomotive is the most faded in this unusual lashup.

The setting sun provides for colorful lighting for the NS OCS pictured crossing from West Virginia into Maryland. The consist lead by NS 4270, NS 4276, NS 4275 and NS 5648 head home to Altoona, P... (more)

Waiting for the NS OCS train at Shepherdstown, 214, which I had shot earlier in the day, showed up for another portrait.

After a joyous week in the Peach state, the NS F-units catch the last sun rays of the day as she rolls across the trestle at Shepherdstown, WV, enroute to Altoona, PA.

The Augusta, Georgia bound, NS F-units, pause on the trestle at Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

A beautiful lashup of NS 4270 F9 A unit, NS 4276 F7 B unit, NS 4275 F7B unit and NS 5648 GP38-2 cross the Potomac River bridge from Maryland into West Virginia on the way to the Masters Golf Tourn... (more)

Freezing rain falls as Atlanta bound 211 tries to keep time.

NS 228, the skittles like container train, cuts through about a 1/2 inch of ice that has built up on the track.