With Kodachrome blue skies towering above, the 73rd annual Santa Train comes to a stop in Dante, VA on the former Clinchfield mainline. This was my first experience of the north end of the Clinchf... (more)

The Piedmont Division's weekday turn between Chamblee and East Point enters ex-Central of Georgia trackage at CP Spring. With two former Southern SD40-2s trailing, it's appropriate to note that th... (more)

Spring has sprung in north Georgia as a Bradford Pear and several dozen peach bushes at the nearby Jaemor Farm bracket two classic SD40-2s on their way back to Gainesville.

With a short train behind them, a pair of ex-BC Rail MLWs are making easy work of the Pocono Main, seen passing the restored DL&W freight station in Moscow.

A fresh SD70ACU and an ET44AC lead NS 221 through the industrial chicken plant-filled area of Gainesville on a hot Tuesday.

Amtrak's eastbound Pennsylvanian knocks down the PT 211 signals at Barree shortly before they'd succumb to "progress."

A southbound regional flies by the SEPTA Norwood station on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor just south of Philadelphia.

After a late departure from Roanoke, the last J makes up time with The Powhatan Arrow in tow at Webster, VA. The Blue Ridge still had its N&W Color Position Light signals as of this trip, a... (more)

The Christmas Eve version of NS 221 is loaded down with nearly two miles of domestic containers. Despite the weight, the intermodal is doing a solid 45 through the switch at Red Lane on this brigh... (more)

CSXT GP38-2 2553 works with an MP15T to pull cars from Sand Rock Transit in downtown Atlanta. The train is about a quarter mile from Tilford Yard, the location it is based out of.

Two SD40M-2s pass through the center of Westminster with stone empties from Finksburg bound for the Barrick and Sons quarry in Woodsboro.

One of the newer ES44ACs (from the previous order) leads Charleston to Atlanta intermodal 237 under the Southern Railway signal at Belton. The replacement cantilever's mast stands alongside, and t... (more)

Charleston-Atlanta intermodal 237 creeps up to the signals at Mecaslin Street as it advances in an unnecessary 5-hour long holding pattern to move the final 3 miles into Inman Yard. Southern Railw... (more)

NS P16 flies downhill with dynamics howling as they round a sharp curve on the Commerce Branch with 39 cars in tow for Maysville and Commerce.

Manifest freight M342 knocks down the LED signals at North Tuscola on Canadian National's Champaign Subdivision. With two ES44ACs on the front, this train won't struggle on its southbound trip thr... (more)