Slug 2301 begins to pull at the lead of K796 from under the loadout at the Carmuese Rock Quarry. The quarry switch sits at MP 45 on the Shenandoah Sub and is accessed via a spur. The train consist... (more)

The Sun sets and the high clouds of an impending winter storm catch fire in a blaze of orange behind Bolivar Heights. K796 joined alongside the Shenandoah River almost 3 miles back and is about to... (more)

CSX limestone train K796 traverses 44 of 50 miles of the Shenandoah Sub, ie the Valley Branch of the B&O from Middletown, VA to Harpers Ferry and beyond. Here it is passing the Paper Mill at Hallt... (more)

Snow has begun to fall as a Norfolk Southern manifest train passes the Cumberland Valley Co-Op just south of Shippensburg, PA.

An eastbound coal train charges up the west slope under the silhouetted PRR signals at Summerhill as the Sun begins to set and lights up the high clouds.

11R crosses the Potomac River on a very frigid windy January day as the final rays of light shine on the Maryland side of the river.

Proof that not everything works as it should. This, the westbound B&O CPL guarding the CSX/NS diamond in the distance at Charles Town, WV is only one of two active B&O CPLs in Jefferson County, WV... (more)

The new Box Car logo of CSX is lightly painted on the side of a 3000 numbered series engine sitting in Brunswick Yard as it sits in the trailing position of an eastbound coal train.

Lit under a Half Moon, the "diamond" where the old Shenandoah Valley Railroad ie Norfolk and Western Railway H Line and the old Winchester and Potomac ie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cross on the f... (more)

The FRED of V86 flashes as the rear of the train exits the siding at Shepherdstown.

Fog or Pea Soup? L415 rolls east through the interlocking as a heavy dense fog settles in the Northern Shenandoah Valley limiting visability to less than a quarter of a mile.

This lone single mast Norfolk and Western CPL signal guards the south approach to the former N&W/B&O now NS/CSX diamond crossing in Charles Town, WV. The signal still serves the railroad as it has... (more)

First train picture of 2013. NS 8340 and it's manifest train gets the proceed signal off the siding at Shepherdstown after waiting for a southbound train to pass.

Northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal 214 lights up the dual bracket Norfolk and Western CPL signals at Shepherdstown, WV on the H Line.

An NS northbound flips the Norfolk and Western CPL at Charles Town, WV