Westbound manifest snakes along the James River. I was teased several times by NS freights moving southward just across the river. This stretch of track has concrete ties.

Westbound manifest races past Eagle Rock at 1525.

Aging warbonnet at the point of this southbound NS merchandise train from Allentown to Roanoke awaiting signal to proceed at Glasgow. Two BNSF GE units and a UP EMD...NS is sure leveraging foreig... (more)

Pushing a manifest train up toward Soldier Summit on UP trackage. This unit needs a new left ditch light.

Eastbound manifest crosses the Weber River after emerging from a tunnel.

Eastbound manifest freight heads for Wyoming.

Southbound MARC commuter train on its way from Baltimore to Washington, DC.

High hood SD40-2 leads a long string of empty Top Gons westward from Norfolk toward the coal fields of Appalachia.

Pair of Whales. High stripe and low stripe P42s brake the eastbound Three Rivers down the grade.

After a dozen intermodal cars up front, the rest of this train consists of empty Tropicana reefers on their way back to Tampa.

Sounder colors on the Potomac, Seattle's leased gift to the nation's capital.

Northbound freight rolls into DC at about 1010, sporting a pair of Wisconsin Central SD45s in the lash-up.

Southbound TOFC rolls past Reagan Airport at about 1300.

GP40 leads the mid-day southbound toward Virginia.

First train from Fredericksburg, this GP40 leads a string of Kawasaki bi-level commuter cars. The Washington Masonic Temple rises in the background.