Appalachia "Coal and Railroad Days" 2023!!

NS 51V thunders up the grade at Shawsville with a brand new C6M in the lead. A BC Rail trails second. Not many of these venture out to this part of the US so it was a nice treat which was pleasa... (more)

Virginian Railway 2-10-10-2 number 801 leads 150 cars westbound doing 10 MPH at Roanoke Virginia on August 7th 1932. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Manifest NS 19W rumbles west through control point Arthur on the Christiansburg district with a UP on point.

As the clock strikes midnight, NS 273 rumbles west through control point Arthur in Shawsville, VA with a single CSX unit for power.

A heavy thunderstorm unleashes its fury upon this eastbound double stack train as it races east towards Roanoke.

A pair of empty coal trains sit in the yard in Janey, Virginia on Norfolk Southern's Buchanan Branch. These trains are bound for loading at the Coronado Coal Co. Mine in Page once the train curren... (more)

The Yorktown Power Station was constructed in 1957 and powered approximately 285,000 homes on the Virginia Peninsula. The Dominion Energy power plant had a net generating capacity of 1,141 megawat... (more)

US Army Reserves from the 757th Expeditionary Railway Command, Team One, conducted annual training at Fort Eustis. Crews exchange a wave as two trains pass each other in Hanks Yard. A yard crew op... (more)

US Army Reserves from the 757th Expeditionary Railway Command, Team One, conducted annual training at Fort Eustis. The team planned a scenario of deploying abroad to a war-torn country, revitalizi... (more)

A recently re released SD70M-2 leads manifest NS 19W west through Shawsville.

A double stack train drops downgrade at Friendship Road in a heavy thunderstorm. A relatively new and shiny AC44C6M leads the train as it heads towards a crew swap in Roanoke.

Shenandoah Valley Railroad local operated by the Durbin Greenbrier Valley Railroad with the DGVR 5940 sporting the colors of the original C&O livery. The local running long hood foward climbs a sh... (more)

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit pulls hopper train Ns 815 west through Shawsville, VA.

CSX's new Chessie System heritage unit leads train I031!