Built for the Belt Railway of Chicago, GMTX EMD GP38-2 No. 2109 idles in rural south central West Virginia on the old Winifrede Railroad. The locomotive is used to shuffle coal empties and loads b... (more)
CSX run-through power leads an NS ethanol train through Crum, W.Va., during a late summer downpour.
One of NS' hottest trains on the Kenova District experienced a brief delay in mid-September after a vehicle stalled on a rural grade crossing on the railroad's ex-Norfolk & Western mainline near W... (more)
Amtrak's City of New Orleans train No. 59 charges through Betonia, Miss., on its way to New Orleans from Chicago.
Delta Southern EMD GP9s nos. 1585 and 1597 bask in the early spring sun at Tallulah, La.
Florida East Coast EMD GP40-2 No. 432 leads a small mixed freight south along the FEC main at St. Augustine.
Milder temperatures in February brought West Virginia an early, albeit temporary, spring season. Here, Kanawha River Railroad's southbound 380 passes through Dunbar, W.Va., on its way to Dickinson... (more)
Operating with hand signals, Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35 No. 3901 switches on the south end of Dickinson Yard during the first onset of spring.
Circus personnel prepare a cut of wagons for loading during the circus' last revenue rollout in Charleston, W.Va., in May 2017.
Ringling Bros.' Jerry Bentley leads a set of covered wagons onto the circus' fleet of privately owned flat cars during the last loadout in Charleston, W.Va., in May 2017.
With the final performance in the books, Ringling Bros. personnel beginning loading the covered wagons for one last time in Charleston, W.Va., on May 7, 2017. The show was headed from Charleston t... (more)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' Jerry Bentley takes a moment to rest in-between circus train duties as the greatest show on earth's tenure draws to a close during the second-to-last per... (more)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey assistant trainmaster Mike Achhammer poses with the Blue Unit consist during the circus' second to last show ever.
A former Southern Pacific GP35 now dressed up for Watco's Kanawha River Railroad switches the Ringling Bros. circus train fleet in the Dickinson Yard near Charleston, W.Va., in May 2017.
A pair of Watco's Kanawha River Railroad Geeps switch the Ringling Bros. circus train in the railroad's Dickinson Yard south of Charleston, W.Va., in May 2017.
Looking for like a passenger yard than a freight yard, a Kanawha River Railroad conductor protects the shove as the entire Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey passenger train is switched for positi... (more)
While documenting the final days of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train in May 2017, I watched a family and their small child ride his bike along the right-of-way in-between evenin... (more)
The Kanawha River Railroad's Dickinson Yard was used in May 2017 to switch the entire passenger consist of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train in preparation for its disposition ea... (more)
Western Maryland EMD BL2 No. 82 poses with Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 4 during a photo event at the Cass Scenic Railroad on April 28, 2017.
Cass Scenic Railroad Shays Nos. 4 and 5 pose alongside one another at the wye track below Bald Knob during a special photo event on April 29, 2017.
First daylight train on the River Line! The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley's Cass Scenic Railroad ran its first daylight train for photographers on the C&O Durbin-Cass River line on April 29, 2... (more)
A freshly painted fireball! The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Western Maryland BL2 idles at the Cass water tank during its public unveiling with WM's fireball scheme. The locomotive... (more)
Rebuilding a railroad ... one tie at a time! In the hills of rural Pocahontas County West Virginia, the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad is rebuilding a section of the former Chesapeake ... (more)
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Mountain Explorer Dinner Train heads for the High Falls of Cheat as it slices through the late summer foliage near Bowden on the West Virginia Central.
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley's Cass Scenic Railroad Bald Knob train ascends Cass Hill with Shay No. 4 pushing the train.
NS' Savannah & Atlanta heritage SD70ACe leads CSX Q303 west through Hilldale, W.Va., on CSX's Alleghany Subdivision east of Hinton.
The headlight of a lone Norfolk Southern EMD GP38-2 illuminates the Guyandotte River Valley and silhouettes one of the few remaining Virginian Railway searchlight signals at Ittman on NS' Guyandot... (more)
After taking the first cut of loaded coal hoppers to a siding near Mount Hope, a pair of run-through CSX motors return light to Pax to pick up another loaded of coal on R.J. Corman's Loup Creek Br... (more)
The control point at Maben on Norfolk Southern's Princeton-Deepwater District displays stop signals for trains coming off of Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. Here, Watco trains have trackage rights... (more)
The morning after the winter season's first measurable snowfall, a pair of R.J. Corman EMD SD40-2Ts bring the last cut of loaded coal hoppers out of the loadout at Pax to meet with the rest of the... (more)
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander (left) meets the Cass Scenic Railroad's Bald Knob excursion at Spruce on Sept. 24, 2017.
In-between clouds, a pair of Kanawha River Railroad geeps bask in the evening sun in the railroad's Dickinson Yard near Charleston.
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander heads home for Elkins after picking up passengers at Spruce, as seen along the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River near Cheat Bridge... (more)
A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern duo bring coal loads across the Ohio River at Gallipolis into Ohio from Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Former Clinchfield FP7(A) No. 200 skirts along the Tygart River at sunset headed toward Belington from Elkins on former Baltimore & Ohio trackage. The locomotive, which is now dressed up as Wester... (more)
Freshly painted Clinchfield Railroad No. 800 leads the 75th running of the Santa Train southbound on home rails, spanning the Copper Creek viaduct. The locomotive was recently painted at CSX's Hun... (more)
A pair of 2-8-2s, including C&TS No. 488 and Rio Grande Southern-painted No. 455 tackle Cumbers Pass with a fall excursion train for Antonito, Colo.
An early fall in the West Virginia hills... Fall colors are ahead of schedule this season as the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander climbs through the Appalachi... (more)
A salute to summer... Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 spans the New River at Hawks Nest on its way to Chicago from New York City on Labor Day Weekend. The train has nearly complet... (more)
A BNSF Railway container train for Barstow, Calif., climbs the grade at Siberia in the early morning sun.
Ascending Tehachapi Pass on its way to Barstow from Bakersfield, five BNSF locomotives pull a stack train across UP's Mojave Subdivision on the beautiful, and still usually green, Tehachapi Pass i... (more)
The very last Norfolk Southern-ran NS 380 rolls into Maben, W.Va., after a heavy rain. Within a few hours of giving up its track authority, this section of the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater... (more)
Summer nights in St. Albans... A westbound CSX coal train rolls through downtown St. Albans, a popular railfan hangout, on its way to Russell, Ky., from Hinton, W.Va.
Built for the Burlington Northern in 1978, BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 1664 shuffles a cut of freight cars in BNSF Railway's Winslow Yard on its former Santa Fe Transcon in Arizona. The train is framed by... (more)
Climbing out of the high desert of northern New Mexico, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 climbs Raton Pass on its way to Trinidad, Colo., from Raton, N.M.
Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 glides across the high desert of New Mexico at an impressive track speed of 79 mph. The train, which is running close to on time, is enroute to Chi... (more)
Passing through a residential section of Eleanor, UP ES44AC No. 8105 and an NS SD70 lead a loaded coal train northbound along the Kanawha River Railroad on tracks formerly used by Norfolk Southern... (more)
Northbound on the Kanawha River Railroad, UP ES44AC No. 8105 leads a coal train toward Hobson, Ohio, from the coalfields of southern West Virginia. While operated by Watco crews, this coal train i... (more)
Running more than 15 minutes ahead of schedule, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 heads for Huntington, W.Va., from Charleston, W.Va., on the CSX's ex-C&O mainline. With a scheduled arriva... (more)
Nearly completing its run form Portsmouth, Ohio, to Williamson, W.Va., the Norfolk Southern OCS, led by NS F9(A) No. 4270 leans into Naugatuck on the former N&W Kenova District mainline.
With Norfolk Southern executives on board, NS 4270 leads the company's office car special down the former Norfolk & Western Kenova District through Prichard, W.Va., south of Kenova on its way to B... (more)
With many of its siblings in storage or in the deadline, CSX EMD SD40-2 No. 8856 earns its keep during this July 3rd perspective on the head end of CSX Q302 in the South Charleston yard. The train... (more)
It's rather unusual to catch an EMD SD40-2 leading a Class I railroad freight train today. Here, CSX Q302 with CSX EMD SD40-2 No. 8856 and SD40-3 No. 4326 drops off a cut of 36 cars at the South C... (more)
Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 barrels alongside the seemingly deserted streets of downtown Charleston during the 4th of July holiday weekend. The train, which is running only about 50 ... (more)
With AEP's John E. Amos Power Plant in the background, the third northbound coal train on the Kanawha River Railroad for the week rolls through Black Betsy just north of Poca. The coal-fired power... (more)
Amid a railroad landscape that is constantly changing with modernization's to infrastructure or the restructuring of how obscure railroads operate, there's only one constant guaranteed in Appalach... (more)
Amtrak EMD F59PHI No. 456 leads a southbound Pacific Surfliner through Encinitas on its way to San Diego from Los Angeles.
Running a few minutes ahead of schedule, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 blows through St. Albans at dusk.
During the annual RiverFest events in the Kanawha Valley in Nitro, Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP39-2 No. 3901 sits adjacent to the railroad's small yard office in Nitro. The local, which is a on a... (more)
Bird watching... Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 eases into view as Charleston Station Agent Matt Crouch waits to load the Chicago-bound train with luggage. Nearly two dozen people will ... (more)
At daybreak, Norfolk & Western 4-6-0 No. 382 barrels across the Strasburg country side during a series of morning photo runbys coordinate by Pete Lerro of Lerro Productions.
There's few places, if any, outside of the Northeast Corridor where one can stand near a rail yard and be surrounded by several cuts of passenger cars from various heritages. As a fleet of more th... (more)
Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief skirts along the New Mexico high desert at sunset after a brief delay near Mesita. The train will trek across western Mew Mexico and much of Arizona under... (more)
A VRE commuter train spans Neabsco Creek near Woodbridge on its morning trip into Washington Union Station from the suburbs of northern Virginia.
A Canadian National EMD SD50 leads a mixed freight north out of CN's Harrison Yard southwest of downtown Memphis.
On Independence Day 2016, the local citizens of St. Albans let off a few fireworks as a westbound empty coal train slides into the East End of St. Albans on main two. On main one, an eastbound tra... (more)
NS intermodal train No. 234 crosses the Ohio River into West Virginia a few minutes after sunset. Spring is well on its way to summer and while a few showers earlier in the week have left some exc... (more)
A trio of CSX engines, including CSX ET44AC No. 3333 leads the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey 'Blue' unit circus train across the Virginian Railway's Sweeneysburg trestle northwest of Beckley... (more)
An American tradition comes to an end... After 146 years of entertaining families all across America, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is making its final visit to Charleston, W.Va., ... (more)
Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 5 leads the first photo excursion along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Greenbrier line in more than 30 years. The locomotive, which has been disguised as a former Green... (more)
Say hello to the newest restoration from the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad. Crews worked diligently this week and especially today to unveil Western Maryland EMD BL2 No. 82 in its new Wester... (more)
The DPU's of a westbound BNSF Railway intermodal train drift into the Mojave Desert near Goffs during one of January's vibrant red sunsets.
Skirting along the rugged landscape of the Mojave Desert, a BNSF Z train for Barstow catches the last 60 seconds of light at Ludlow on its way to Los Angeles from the Midwest.
A northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner consist sporting an unlikely consist of horizon car coaches skirts along the Pacific Coast near Del Mar at sundown. The train, which is en route to Los Angele... (more)
UP GE ES44AC No. 7984 climbs Tehachapi Pass near Caiiente with a mixed freight train for Mojave. A wet winter across California has resulted in an extended green season on Tehachapi Pass and in mu... (more)
After crossing Tehachapi Pass at sunset, a Barstow, Calif., bound stack train heads toward Monolith as it glides east across the outskirts of downtown Tehachapi.
A BNSF Railway intermodal train for Barstow, Calif., meets a Bakersfield, Calif., bound freight train at Tehachapi loops during an unusually green and mild spring season.
A Union Pacific freight train headed for Mojave, Calif., meets a Bakersfield-bound BNSF freight at the famed Tehachapi loops. Combined, there's more than two miles of various bulk commodities, con... (more)
A BNSF intermodal train barrels across the Mojave desert on BNSF's ex- Santa Fe transcon at Pisgah.
Yes, that's a Chessie System locomotive at a CSX repaint facility in the year 2017. C&O No. 8272, formerly known as CSX B30-7 No. 5554 sits at CSX's Huntington Locomotive Shops on Saturday, March ... (more)
On incredibly unusual summer-like day, Kanawha River Railroad No. 381 and two matching KNWA SD40-M2s lead a freight through the capital city of Charleston. The train is en route to Columbus, Ohio,... (more)
BNSF power leads a run-through grain train south on CN's Waukesha Subdivision near Theresa.
A Canadian National Tier-4 GE ET44AC leads a northbound freight train through the marshlands of Theresa.
A former Chicago & Northwestern GE C40-8 leads a CN freight train north on the approach to Byron Hill. The train is headed for Fond du Lac, Wis., from the Chicago area.
Canadian National EMD SD70M-2 No. 8901 leads a crude oil train toward Milwaukee on the railroad's Waukesha Subdivision in Richfield.
Coal may not be what it used to be and the trains may not roll through the community of Sproul as often as they used to, but the loyal Chesapeake & Ohio style cantilever signals still guide trains... (more)
Spanning the ex-Virignian Railway bridge at Slab Fork, NS' "Honoring First Responders" EMD SD60E No. 911 leads empties toward Alloy Yard from Mullens on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.
Putnam County EMS, Nitro Police and Nitro Fire pose in front of NS' specially painted "Honoring First Responders" EMD SD60E No. 9-1-1 in Nitro, W.Va., on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.
Norfolk Southern's specially painted "Honoring First Responders" No. 911 leads three other units on a northbound coal train through Nitro. The train is traveling on Watco's Kanawha River... (more)
A Canadian Pacific visitor makes a timely visit to the Tri-State region of West Virginia during some of the 2016-17 winter season's coldest weather to-date.
