Once a year, Norfolk Southern would have an open house at Calumet Yard that allowed employees' family and friends to tour the yard and facilities. 1986 featured an Operation Lifesaver Display fea... (more)

An unexpected cab ride was a great way to celebrate the 4th of July. The crew invited me up into the cab for a ride to the next siding. Traveling east from Mescal through Benson, SP 8035 is appro... (more)

Running 90 cars long and with a length of over 8500 feet, Q242 continues its journey south after a meet with one at Gabbettville as it takes this long empty auto rack train to Montgomery and to th... (more)

Southbound Q242 makes a unique move by continuing south with its load of empty auto racks instead of the usual procedure of dropping them off at West Point as it's seen today passing south through... (more)

An eastbound stack train hustles through Lavic's vertical curvature as a westbound recedes into the distance.

An ex-Conrail C39-8 leads a westbound UP freight into Tucson past blooming palo verde trees.

A Norfolk Southern ballast train heads south at Keno, Kentucky, on the famous former Southern Railway “Rathole” line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. The short, heavy train even has a caboo... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, a westbound intermodal train comes off the Needles Sub and skirts the old yard on its way to a crew change.

CSX #7574 leads a long auto rack train north into Evansville Indiana, as storm clouds blow up to the east in Kentucky.

A northbound Norfolk Southern train crosses the Cumberland River at Burnside, Kentucky, on a hot and hazy August 23, 1992. On the point of train No. 196 is NS No. 8596 which is a GE C39-8; and yes... (more)

Hauling limestone to the Minntac mine in ore cars is not an everyday thing but when the usual to this job former Minntacand then Missabe side dump cars are in the shops for rebuilding CN makes due... (more)

NS 8635 poses in front of the former Virginian Railway depot with a visitor from the C&NW in this September 1997 view.

Conrail purchased 22, C39-8 #6000-6021.

Conrail C32-8 No. 6610, dressed in the "Ballast Express" scheme, was leading westbound manifest CAPI at Longfellow, PA on Feb. 15, 1998. Although I saw these units several times, on everything fr... (more)