A couple of foreign Canadian sisters, find themselves in the South with 3,203 feet of mixed freight and the task of bringing them north to Birmingham, AL hopefully without any delays. The combina... (more)

A southbound CSX Q101 train comes through on the mainline with yet another colorful display of containers and a couple of wide cabs to haul them to their next delivery point. Transported in singl... (more)

Following in single file, ethanol tanker cars blast north behind two CSX units. The leading Dash 8 built in 1991, CSXT #7662 now executes its duties in "Dark Future" paint rather than i... (more)

A couple of CSX six axel generals, navigate the Lineville Subdivision through Roanoke with 96 mixed freight cars. Passing the Roanoke siding and house track, this Waycross, GA bound train next si... (more)

A beautiful morning sets the scene for CSX train Q125-20, as it arrives into Roanoke. Its duo of CSX motive power, almost effortlessly pull a short consist of containers (4,565 feet) pass the sma... (more)

Quickly getting back up to speed, Amtrak #19 continues the journey west from Atlanta, GA with two GE P42DC locomotives on the point after meeting Norfolk Southern train 186. The daily southbound ... (more)

"THE RAILROAD KITTY"... The merger of the C&O Railroad with B&O Railroad and Western Maryland Railway in 1972, gave way to the formation of the Chessie System. This new companies logo w... (more)

One of the longest sidings on the Lineville Subdivision (12,015 feet), provides a temporary parking spot for CSX train Q647. The operating crew has worked a 12hr max shift and now slows their tra... (more)

Cruising on the mainline with 7,492 feet of train, Q685-08 travels south with a MAC on the point. All 123 cars that it's composed of, wheel flanges will be lubricated here at mp. 843.

Tier 4 compliant CSX engine #3314 rushing its train between the pillars of an old wooden bridge. Accompanied by three other CSX GEs and with an array of cars in tow, this Tennessee bound manifest... (more)

Weighing a whopping (432,000 pounds) this AC powered GE thunders over the mainline with 95 loaded autoracks. Not long after Q235-20 exited Roanoke, southbound CSX train Q125 followed hot on its h... (more)

"Locomotive Burnout"... After a train stalls in Roanoke with 110 loads of coal, power from another train was brought in to pull it over the hill. During the rescue attempt, wheel slippage occurre... (more)

A unit train of phosphate loads follow three CSX General Electric wide cabs through the quite countryside of Broughton. Originating in New Wales, FL, and formerly running as train K802, CSX train... (more)

On the headend of Q181-04, the horn of BNSF engine #4265 blares while it roars through the crossing with 5,428 feet of locomotive power and stack containers. A ghostly wall of deep well cars and ... (more)

Heading into the rays of the setting sun, four sunkist orange BNSF engines glide north with stack containers (majority of them J.B. Hunt) just yards away from crossing the defect detector at mp 8... (more)