With 170 loads of black diamonds bound for the port of Norfolk, quite the pair of locomotives leads this 810 coal train. Norfolk Southern heritage ES44AC #8098, the 'Conrail' leads Kansas City Sou... (more)

As it has for many years past, the James E. Strates Carnival Train heads up the RF&P at sunset with an most uninteresting pair of GE's.

Bringing a hefty cut of hoppers west, this SD70ACe makes easy work paired with an ES44AC as they round the bend coming off the 'Old Line' at Jack.

Leaving behind the capitol city skyline as it crosses the James River, loaded ammonium train W943 sports a nice leader for 2022, CW40-8 #7886, wearing it's as-delivered YN2 paint scheme. The bridg... (more)

With a pretty good blanket of snow on the ground still in Richmond from the snow a few days ago, a welded rail train is seen about to pass the AFI Readers located just south of CSX's Acca Yard use... (more)

With a long, heavy manifest in tow, a pair of CSX's finest haul the ~175 car train south through the Fredericskburg interlocking as an approach is displayed for the northbound Auto Train on 3 main... (more)

Cool, humid, and overcast weather makes for some of the best shooting conditions for steam. Such was the case on Memorial Day weekend on the Walkersville Southern Railroad, as Jeddo Coal Company 0... (more)

It's a beautiful February morning in the James River valley, and manifest train Q303 is blasting out of Clifton Forge having finished working the yard.

With maintenance holding all tracks ahead, hopper trains 825 (left, empty coal) and 41N (empty grain) are holding side by side in Burkeville while the MOW clears up the tracks.

On a beautiful Memorial Day morning, excursion train 958 heads west near Salem with the lovely 'Queen of Steam' looking mighty fine on her Birthday.

While most of the leaves have fallen already, a few still hang on to some late changing maple trees in downtown Ashland, Virginia, as the northbound Carolinian makes its way through town on an ove... (more)

Fall Foliage was just beautiful in the mountains of West Virginia on this cool fall morning, as an 80 car empty grain train has just departed Moorefield, bound for the CSX interchange in Green Spr... (more)

With a sold out Frostburg Flyer train in tow, Western Maryland H6 'Mallet' #1309 thunders up the mountainside, almost to the namesake town. Foliage is at peak here, and is in full showing, with be... (more)