PRR had its Truc-Trains and NYC had its Super Vans. In 1970 Penn Central renamed these trains TV or Trail Vans and the symbols remained through the Conrail era. TV-2 was the eastbound fleet leade... (more)

Symbol freight OIPI9 (Oak Island-Conway) with a couple strangers comes snarling into the east end of Horseshoe Curve on a gorgeous autumn afternoon. Fuji Sensia.

Trailing the145 cars of OIPI9 are two helpers shoving the westbound over the mountain.

Just west of the New Mexico line at MP 181.9, BNSF 7893 and two mates ahead with two behind comes rolling along the classy looking iron into an Arizona sundown.

The 8091 West with a trio of “fast-forties” (high geared SD40-2s) is at the point of either one of the Overland Mail trains or the VAN for LA departing Cheyenne on its run over Sherman Hill. T... (more)

Third Subdivision dispatcher Art Crawford is getting ready to make a move at East Green River, WY. He's working the fast railroad between Rawlins and Green River where hotshots could run the 135 m... (more)

Winding through the hollows of West Virginia along the Tug Fork, NS 9005 passes the distinctive N&W CPLs at Naugatuck.

CSX 6462 leads an eastbound past retired NJ Cabin, junction of lines to Columbus and Cincinnati west of Russell. C&O called its towers "cabins" and, if truth be known, it was an apt desc... (more)

CSX 9010 East exits Graham Tunnel and crosses the Potomac River as it passes from West Virginia into Maryland through the tunnel and then back into West Virginia at Magnolia, as described by the p... (more)

CSX 5359 leads a string of power on a westbound manifest headed for Cumberland as it negotiates the deep hollows of the Potomac River valley at Hansrote, WV. The B&O style CPLs were certainly an i... (more)

There's nothing like a pleasant autumn afternoon along the railroad. Norfolk Southern goes about its business on the hill as yet another intermodal train passes MG interlocking.

Fall brings a steady parade of grain traffic to the northern routes. BNSF 7200 East is gliding off Winston hill as it passes the classic NP-era cantilever and searchlight signals in Townsend, MT o... (more)

Along the Overland Route: Early morning on the bluff overlooking Rock River, WY found the distant speck of an eastward train 8 miles distant. Almost imperceptibly it crosses the plains, eventually... (more)

Serenade in blue: The distant roar of power steadily becomes louder as a heavy westbound manifest works up the grade. Coming out of Scotch Run curve and passing MP 241 the sound is overwhelming an... (more)

Symphony in green, to the key of V-16: BN 8036 West with a grain train has nearly completed the long climb across the plains and foothills as it approaches the Continental Divide at Marias Pass. S... (more)