OHIO! On Super Bowl Sunday, CSX 524 leads southbound coal empties across the NS diamond.

The rails this local rides on are 102 years, and they definitely show their age. They almost look as though they should be abandoned, but once a week, the Fredericksburg area local runs in here, a... (more)

The searchlights at Benson are probably not long for this world, but they saw another sunrise on this morning. The West Local was having problems with them, however, as supposedly the signal in t... (more)

Silhouetted by the headlight of local Y206-07 coming off the Lexington Branch, the endangered C&O signal bridge at NC Cabin stands guard for another frigid January night as Russell-Middletown slab... (more)

The race is on, as two trains speed west on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The first train in the shot is passing through Bagdad, while the Z train in the distance, running on the opposite track, wi... (more)

Over a century old, the north portal of the Nelson Bennett Tunnel has seen many trains in its life. Fast approaching, a Robert's Bank loaded coal train is just the next one on this unseasonably wa... (more)

"12R MEETS 213"
It's a very chilly 10 degrees at Shepherdstown, WV as 213 sits in the siding to meet the oncoming 12R. The venerable Norfolk and Western CPL signals stand guard both in ... (more)

Probably the only good thing about forest fires is that when the smoke is in the air, it makes for some pretty colorful sunrises and sunsets. At 7:25 a.m., a westbound coal train heads through the... (more)

Anticipation - Valley Railroad Mikado No. 40 crosses over the Railroad Avenue crossing, her headlight illuminating about a half mile of track between that crossing and Dock Road, visible in the fo... (more)

In October 1997, Union Pacific called out rotary snowplow No. 900082 and support train to clear the Kansas Pacific Line in eastern Colorado. Here it is in Arapahoe, Colorado at sunset.

Battle of Light. The signals at Noimi Jct. battle to protect the CN Minntac Sub from an oncoming train. The signals won and the train headed up the CN Missabe Sub.

An eastbound lights up the classic signals at Wills.

NS 8327's headlights peek through the falling snow as it curves through Laurel Valley with NS 112 in tow.

Heavy fog has rolled into the Arizona's high country after a rain storm dumped rain all day as a BARGAL junk train breaks through the fog on a 35 degree night in Flagstaff.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight approaches West Rawlins, Wyoming, at sunset on February 8, 2007.