We were at Haire, WY on the morning of Sept. 21, 1995. I guess is is best to go from left to right. A westbound (geographic north) BN empty coal train was waiting for traffic to clear before lea... (more)

C&O Train No. 1, the Washington section of the "George Washington," is arriving at Charlottesville, VA on May 24, 1970. Train No. 41 has already arrived from Newport News and Richmond. Shortly, ... (more)

Baltimore & Annapolis 70-Tonner No. 50 was putting the final touches on its train at the interchange with CSX in Baltimore, MD on Oct. 25, 1985.

An eastbound NF&D freight train was rolling through a location known as Kingsberry, just west of Emporia, VA on June 30, 1980. It was named for Kingsberry Homes, a modular home manufacturer that ... (more)

Southbound Auto Train AT-3 was crossing Neabsco Creek at Neabsco, VA with two U36Bs on May 21, 1978.

An eastbound B&O coal train arriving at Cumberland, MD on June 15, 1970 with four GP9s. To the right is a wagon top caboose on a departing westbound manifest.

A westbound empty hopper train was dropping down Cranberry Grade, west of Terra Alta, WV on Oct. 24, 1977, led by C&O GP38 No. 3898. Back then I did a lot of camping by the railroad and this is f... (more)

Back in 1995, much of the track west of Reno Junction on the Orin Subdivision was still single track. Work was in progress to double track many sections, but had not been completed. Trains would... (more)

PC SD45 No. 6162 teams up with a SD40 and a SD35 to lift an ore drag up the East Slope below Horseshoe Curve on July 18, 1975. Looking back, I was amazed on that trip to see how much ore PC was m... (more)

I remember from someplace the statement "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That is how I felt on April 21, 1980. With three T6s in Harrisonburg, two Chesapeake Western and on... (more)

Former B&O GP9 No. 6604 had trailed the train down from Petersburg. Upon arriving at Green Spring the crew split up with half shoving the train to the CSX interchange with No. 6604. If one takes... (more)

Westbound D&RGW manifest No. 143 drops downgrade at Mitchell, CO on June 14, 1989, led by SP B36-7 No. 7759 and a pure lashup of SP power.

By Sept. 10, 1977, WM trains were using the B&O Cumberland SD to reach home rails at Cherry Run, WV. We are just west of Doe Gully as an eastbound WM freight approaches, led by GP9 No. 6415 and a... (more)

BRC GP38-2 No. 581 and crew switching at Clearing Yard in Bedford Park, IL on August 14, 2008.

In a scene that was unfortunately all too familiar at the time, a PC GP9 shoves a wreck train off Rockville Bridge and into Enola Yard on Nov. 22, 1975.