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!

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)