Fall colors came early to WV this year. Today's Durbin Rocket returns to the depot to drop its passengers off, filling the river valley with coal smoke.

For a few days this summer the usual SD70 pair for the gas local was broken up as #4408 was taken offline and replaced with #253, an SD40. This was a rare opportunity to see a conventional cab bac... (more)

Good morning Scranton....

The small town of Helper, UT located about 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City was named for the extra engines based here to help trains up the D&RGW’s steep mountain grade to Soldier Summit. ... (more)

The three Music City Star train sets spend a Sunday layover in the storage yard at Lebanon, TN.

Traction motor assemblies wait to be picked for installation while a mothballed GP60 hopes to return to duty.

Adrian and Blissfield's recently repainted SD45 rests in the Mason, MI shop between runs. This engine premiered the new eye catching red/white corporate image. This along with an ex-GTW GP40 are t... (more)

Empty hoppers leave Asheville, NC and head west to get reloaded with a pair of heritage units trailing.

A few times a week, an Akron Barberton Cluster Railway crew utilizes Wheeling and Lake Erie power to deliver a loaded stone train across CSX rails to National Lime and Stone in south Akron, OH. Th... (more)

2 sets of helper power await the next call to help at, not coincidentally, Helper UT. The town of Helper rests at the bottom of Soldier Summit on the former D&RGW and was aptly named as the basec... (more)

An NS manifest navigates the trench in fall splendor with some of the downtown Pittsburgh skyline in the background. What better place to experience autumn than the "Trench", also know... (more)

There are multiple impressive wooden trestles along the former Tennessee Central line between the mine at Crab Orchard and the interchange in Rockwood. Some are remote but unless you hike in from ... (more)

Nearly a year later, 8133 waits bruised and battered in Altoona for attention. This loco was damaged at Hiram Ga after train 370 derailed in November of 2021.

I made my most recent visit to Lhoist just as the last of the fall color was hanging on. As was typical, the much hated(apparently by both fans and crews alike) rebuilt GP35 was in the lead of the... (more)

The daily Canton-Asheville turn departs Asheville running the way the Southern intended.