A westbound manifest freight thunders past HO Tower at Hancock at about 4:00 on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

An eastbound general merchandise train passes through Germantown at about 1000 on a sunny Monday morning.

An eastbound unit train of Herzog ballast hoppers blasts through Germantown at about 1130 on a sunny Monday morning. His lights are dimmed to meet an oncoming westbound unit autorack train.

A colorful eastbound mixed freight passes under the signal bridge at Cove.

Pipeline on rails. This eastbound tank train makes its way along the Susquehanna River.

Hot northbound intermodal Q174 trundles across the Anacostia River; while it was a very long train, about half of it was empty platforms.

A northbound merchandise train, hot on the heels of another merchandise train, crosses the Anacostia River on a sunny Friday morning. I like the older power bookended by a pair of GEVOs.

Plenty of power hauls this northbound merchandise freight across the Anacostia River on a sunny Friday morning.

A southbound manifest freight with a lot of power crosses the Anacostia River. RFK Stadium is in the background.

A very long southbound train, the first half of which looks like a unit trash train, the second half a general freight, heads through Crystal City. His counterpart, a northbound unit trash train,... (more)

An Amtrak train departs Fredericksburg on a cool but sunny Wednesday morning.

This Cumberland-bound merchandise train crosses the Rappahannock River at about 1000 on a sunny Wednesday morning. Q438 is following not too far behind.

Trailing Q414 by just a few minutes, six units lead this Selkirk-bound merchandise train across the Rappahannock River on a sunny, but cool, Wednesday morning.

A loaded northbound autorack train, behind two leased units, rounds the bend into Savage at about 1100 on a Saturday morning. The lead unit started life in 1974 as an ATSF SD45.

The haulin' o' the green (garbage containers). A green train to celebrate St Patrick's Day.