Heavy storms in the Midwest has resulted in significant delays to Amtrak California Zephyr trains No. 5 and 6 in the past week. Here, a near on-time eastbound No. 6 sits alongside a very tardy wes... (more)

A BNSF Railway intermodal train for Barstow, Calif., meets a Bakersfield, Calif., bound freight train at Tehachapi loops during an unusually green and mild spring season.

This late summer evening in September finds an empty train for Peach Creek rolling through the signals and spring switch at E.E. Ranger on CSX's former C&O Logan Subdivision. Ranger is the occasio... (more)

With Detroit Edison coal loads in tow, CSX N811 parades along the Big Sandy River, splitting a pair of oddball bracket mast signals housing C&O-style signals, westb... (more)

Under the guidance of five standard cab EMD locomotives, CSX Q317 navigates the original B&O street running in downtown St. Marys on New Year's Day. The consist is led by three West Virginia-rebui... (more)

Enroute to the Western Maryland interchange at Spruce with coal empties for Harper Mine, Shay No. 11 eases by the Old Water Tank, climbing in elevation through dense fog and light rain in this spr... (more)

An in-cab perspective of 1948 built Western Maryland EMD BL2 No. 82 on the grounds of the West Virginia Central Railroad in Belington. Notice the unique windshield glass that enhances visibility i... (more)

Departing Alloy yard limits and crossing the Kanawha River at Deepwater, NS-rebuilt GE AC44C6M No. 4181 leads over 12,000 tons of West Virginia coal into the Virginian's Deepwater Tunnel. It's an ... (more)

Steam returns to Bluefield... NS 060 is preparing to depart Bluefield Yard in southern West Virginia enroute to Grundy, Va., for a series of NS 21st century steam excursions. Two SD40-2s wi... (more)

The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander (left) meets the Cass Scenic Railroad's Bald Knob excursion at Spruce on Sept. 24, 2017.

Spring time railroading.. With a steady rain falling and temperatures dropping, CSXT 8721 has just applied three step for the conductor as they prepare to drop off a cut of 33 cars in South Charle... (more)

A splash of color among a predominantly solid Norfolk Southern roster sits at the railroad's Linwood Yard engine facility on the morning of May 29th. A high five goes to the first person who provi... (more)

A mid-summer severe thunderstorm associated with a major cold front terrioizes the small town of Nitro as it tears through the Kanawha Valley with heavy rains, thunder, and an impressive lightning... (more)

A Canadian Pacific export grain train for the West Coast has just crossed into British Colombia from Alberta during a slow up-hill climb near Stephens, B.C., in the late wildfire smoke-induced Can... (more)

Piercing through a deteriorating cloud deck and resting on the shoulders of the western Rockies, a June sun illuminates prairie lands of rural Colorado just outside of Trinidad. Pointed toward La ... (more)