Buckingham Branch's Clifton Forge turn Z631 with a former NS GP38-2 fresh out of the shop from getting a nose trim along with being redone in the colors of the Buckingham Branch livery, BB 15 roll... (more)

The Southbound Northeast Regional Train departing from station stop in Ashland on the summer evening.

CSX local train passing through Ashland.

Norfolk Southern local job U41 exits Natural Tunnel

An NS crew is cooling its heels while waiting for a light to enter CSX's former Clinchfield line to Frisco where it will regain NS trackage. NS abandoned the use of this connection. Coal traffic... (more)

An eastbound freight roars by. I think we drooled. Each of those white cars contained refrigerated, unpasteurized high gravity Coors beer going to northern Virginia to be watered down. Coors is... (more)

I think that fellow taking pictures was me. And it's cold as a westbound string of empty hoppers make their way out of the gloom. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

With a huge string of "silversides" gons shoving on the drawbar and howling dynamic brakes an EB (railroad wise) unit coal train is approaching Tito Siding. I always wonder what was on ... (more)

Amidst the fall foliage this train looks rather drab as it holds short of the junction with the Dry Fork line. It may use that line to reach Iaeger or it may proceed further west on the Clinch Va... (more)

Approximately at the VA/WV state line an SD50 is at the end of a string of power shoving on the rear of a large coal train. Interesting N&W had switched to short hood forward not long before the ... (more)

A clean 4002 leads hot intermodal NS 29C west through Wabun, VA.

Helpers were usually added to trains at Farm or at Flat Top Yard, but the grade stiffened here and they really had to put "out their back into it" from here to the top of the grade in d... (more)

A westbound covered hopper train is heeling into the curve on the mainline as it heads through the many curves, hills and hollers that lead to Williamson.

West of Marion there is a short stretch of track which has to dodge sink holes by tiptoeing along the crags, resulting in "squiggles" which slow trains down as they pull the short grade ... (more)

It’s a spectacular summer morning on the Norfolk Southern B-Line. Just before eleven, Norfolk Southern train 13R rumbles along Stuart Street in The Plains, Virginia. Note the friendly wave form ... (more)