A sight that is becoming more rare in 2020, an AC4400 duo in YN2 paint lead an empty grain train west towards Clifton Forge on the old C&O.

I ended up chasing NS 19M from Roanoke, VA all the way out to the trestle at Coopers with the guidance of Michael Walton and Daniel Alls. This train had one of the friendliest crews I have ever e... (more)

An eastbound loaded coal train works its way east on CSX's James River Subdivision as it winds its way through the rural Virginia countryside. These two GEs were working hard, dragging 100 coal lo... (more)

815 pushes its way through heavy snow as it continues its battle with the Christiansburg grade through Elliston. In a few miles, the crew would obtain permission to turn the second unit on as they... (more)

A westbound empty hopper train heads west over the Buckingham Branch line between Doswell and Clifton Forge. This line is one of the few places left in America that you can see Class 1 trains runn... (more)

With Fall colors getting very close to peak, westbound CSX U209 rocks and rolls its way towards Clifton Forge along the former C&O with one of only four active CSX SD70MAC locomotives that has fla... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Valley heritage unit leads the charge past the N&W CPL signals at PKIN south towards Roanoke with a 220 car train in tow.

A southbound loaded coal drag navigates its way through the morning fog at Arcadia on a very chilly fall morning.

As 8116 leaned into the curve about 25 feet away from the Stave Mill Rd. grade crossing, a Franklin County Sheriff's Office police car sped across the tracks and made it by only a few feet. This t... (more)

After making a stop to turn the second unit on, NS 821 continues west past the blooming Bradford Pear trees at John Farm on a beautiful spring evening.

After a good while where foreign power was extremely hard to come by on NS, it seems to be making a slow and steady comeback as 2 CSX GEVOs and a BNSF T4 GEVO lead 218 east towards Roanoke.

6D4 sits alongside the restored Virginian Railway train station in Roanoke, VA with a BNSF D9-44CW in H2 oaint as it waits for a crew to take it east.

"Valley in the Valley" NS 8104, the Lehigh Valley heritage unit, leads a 220 car 15T south through the Shenandoah Valley on Norfolk Southern's "Valley line"

The 12:30 train makes its way back towards Strasburg depot as it rolls west through the Pennsylvania countryside

I ended up chasing NS 19M from Roanoke, VA all the way out to the trestle at Coopers with the guidance of Michael Walton and Daniel Alls. This train had one of the friendliest crews I have ever e... (more)