A very quiet and tranquil Sunday morning in the rural Virginia mountains is briefly interrupted by the deafening sound of squealing flanges and roaring GE motors, as loads of coal head for Kingspo... (more)

The London Pickup rockets over the hump at Wolverton with a short 35 car train.

CP's "London Pickup" shuffles some cars around at Ayr.

Conrail CSAL (Rocky Mount, NC-Allentown, PA), operating as CSX Z412 between Anacostia and Park Jct., is eastbound on Track 2, splitting the B&O CPL bracket post installations at Rosedale on the Ph... (more)

New paint is still a year away as ICE 4207 & 4206 show off their SP roots as they bring a freight thru Rockford, IL in May of 2004. ICE 4207 is ex-SP 7246 and is now Copper Basin 304.

UP GP40-2 5245 leads the KD local south down the street trackage in Rockford and past Mary's Place,

The "BN Rock" job pulls into Bettendorf with the last of the vibrant fall colors with a single B40-8W and a handful of cars for the CP and Alcoa.

NS 175 slides into downtown Macon, Georgia with a C40-9W, SD60 and WC SD45 as the morning's pigeons take flight although they're not much of a welcoming committee. (Slide Scan)

With their work in the Rockford area all finished, UP 5245 and crew are well on their way back to Belvidere.

Amid a beautiful autumn in Glacier National Park, a westbound BNSF stack train curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as it exits Tunnel 4 just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, ... (more)

NS 373, Savannah to Macon manifest eases through Macon Jct in Macon, Georgia a little after midnight with PTC equipped SD60 6630, 6659 and high hood GP38-2 5194 on October 19, 2018..

Switch crew serve a downtown customer (Macon Telegraph?) on trackage that would be removed a few years later. That is Southern's mainline to Atlanta above 1328.

Running 127 minutes late at this point, 97303 top-and-tail with 97304 “John Tiley” pass Glandyfi on the 08:04 1Q05 Derby RTC to Machynlleth via Aberystwyth. It ran so late because of yet anoth... (more)

A brief dust storm moves through as a northbound loaded UP coal train from Energy Mine departs Platteville, Colorado, after meeting the ZLADV and ZSCDVX, on October 3, 2018.