About 5 minutes after my previous photo, the NCTM special is now passing the bottom of High Fill in the opposite direction, having lost nearly 100 feet in elevation through the lowest of the loops... (more)

Jammed between the old freight house tracks (left) and the spur to UNC (right) the "Southern Rail" restaurant has a little outdoor eating area filled with odds and ends including this large birdho... (more)

A Northeast Regional train on its way to Boston whoooshes through the marshes of Connecticut's colorful shoreline on a steamy July morning.

Following the departure of the southbound Silver Star, the platform lights of the Cary Amtrak station illuminate the CSX rails which will now lie dormant until morning.

Climbing through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on the approach to Tunnel 1 during the final snow of the 2015-2016 winter

Passing a mini-orchard on the way to Carrboro

Rounding the curve heading east out of the bustling metropolis of Pinecliffe, a BNSF manifest makes its way toward Denver on a bluebird Colorado day.

Amtrak's California Zephyr rolls eastbound through the curve at Pinecliffe on a frigid and snowy February afternoon.

Passengers on this westbound California Zephyr have lucked out with bluebird skies and peak fall colors as they leave Fraser, heading for perhaps the most scenic portion of the route as they follo... (more)

Repeating shapes in the A&R's new yard at River Terminal outside Fayetteville

After meeting an empty woodchip train in downtown Old Fort, NS 135 has begun its climb toward the summit of the Blue Ridge on a foggy Halloween Day 2009.

A pair of catfish lead and unbelievably long string of empty coal hoppers into Lynchburg, crossing the Cotton Mill Trestle over a ball field that's seen better days.

Just minutes after the 1PM excursion pulled into the station, #90 is already cut off and running around it's train. The crew of the Strasburg Railroad wastes no time in readying the consist for th... (more)

A short manifest train comes in to Roanoke off the Valley Line with one GE (C40-9) and 2 EMDs (BNSF SD40-2, and a GP38-2). Here they are passing the North Jefferson signals and the ex N&W office b... (more)

Stacks of welded rail for Denver's new East Rail Line to DIA sit covered in snow as a loaded UP coal train trudges slowly eastward.