Norfolk Southern's sleek Office Car Special soars over the 1915 Wells Viaduct at 60 or so miles per hour on a beautiful early summer afternoon. The train is loaded with executives, bound to Greenv... (more)

On a warm spring morning, the Landrum, SC train order semaphore's top color aspects are illuminated by the large fireball in the sky. Another day has dawned, but there still hasn't been another tr... (more)

With the Blue Ridge mountains as a backdrop, N&W 611 splits the grade's namesake signals on the way home from Spencer to Roanoke.

N&W 611 sits coupled to Norfolk Southern maroon coaches for the first time in twenty years while attending the Streamliners event in Spencer.

N&W 611 ducks under the Southern Railway Brosnan-era boxcar beam signal bridge at Pennrington at the north end of Reidsville, NC.

One of the small handful of high hood SD40-2s remaining on the NS system sits in Gainesville until it's needed by local trains which will start running again during the week. Most of these units a... (more)

On the Aggregate Industries spur just off of CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision in southern Maryland, a former Santa Fe GP30u idles away on the south end of a rock train. A CSX crew will take the empty... (more)

Now drifting downgrade on the former Reading, RBMN 425 is on the final leg of her journey back to Port Clinton to close out the first weekend of Autumn Leaf Excursion trains.

NS research train 904 flies eastbound down the Christiansburg District with a single SD40E doing the honors. The train is seen here passing one of the most unique crossings in the country, one put... (more)

A veteran crew handles Train 100 with ease, notching out for the ascent to the Memorial Depot after descending the 4% grade into the bottom of the Hollow Block.

In one of the most surreal scenes I've ever witnessed, NS 203 flies southward, slicing through the thick fog that made the greater Gainesville area look like another planet for the early part of t... (more)

Kansas City Southern intermodal train I-DAAT (NS 220) terminates at Inman Yard in Atlanta with an increasingly uncommon gray SD70MAC leading. Since the closure of the hump yard a good while ago, I... (more)

N&W 611 and NS 4271 sit side-by-side at the Bob Julian roundhouse as NS employees prepare to wash their F-unit.

On a warm summer day in central Kentucky, RJ Corman FP7s 1941 and 1940 are tied down in Bardstown, a few feet from the My Old Kentucky Home Dinner Train. The duo was originally built for So... (more)

Orion, Venus, and other stars and planets glisten overhead as high hood NS SD40-2 1632 sits on the Gainesville Midland lead just south of the Amtrak station and yard office. The signal lights at M... (more)