Local job working at Greenville with Southern GP30 2586 || March 1984

Eastbound coal train at Salem, VA behind C36-7 #8523 || Feb. 1981

Westbound NS freight arriving in Roanoke, VA behind C39-8 #8616 || Sept. 1999

NS local working at Marion, VA in Feb. 1999 with GP60 #7100. This engine was renumbered from NS 7117 following a fatal accident in which the family of the victim requested the original locomotive ... (more)

Parked on a passing siding, a faded and patched UP workhorse, leased to NS, leads a string of four locos pulling a unit train full of corn.

The new Elkhorn line had been in service only six years. Working hard with clear stack, sanders and rail-washer working, N&W 2198 is about to enter Elkhorn Tunnel. Sister 2181 is pushing on the re... (more)

Back when this unit was fresh off the Paint Floor, still dressed in Safety Train Attire, CSX's Newest spirit unit, the Spirit of West Springfield is seen coming back from a training session in Ric... (more)

One of the last EMD GP50s owned by NS leads the K&A Local compass south (railroad west) out of Knoxville. The locomotive has since been sent to Altoona, PA for a rebuild.

Eastbound Nashville & Eastern local at Monterey, TN || March 1989

One of Georgia's more obscure shortlines is the Georgia Woodlands Railroad, an OmniTrax shortline. While wood products used to be the line's mainstay, a plastics producer in Washington is the lin... (more)

Ascending Elkhorn grade on its crew run from Williamson to Bluefield, the Ringling Brothers Blue Unit circus train passes through the deplorable mining community of Keystone, nestled deep in West ... (more)

Southbound MofW train 937 hurries through the CP at Metler (Liberty, SC) with an uncommon (to these parts) GP59 running all out. Moments earlier, the train would not move, but after enough tinkeri... (more)

Kelly's Creek & Northwestern MP15 #2 resting at Ward, WV || June 1985

The freshly fallen snow makes a nice contrast with the rich, black, Northern Appalachian Baily Mine coal on a cold winter morning at Belews Creek Steam Station.

Norfolk Southern Railbus 101 'The Carolinian' has just departed from Seaside Amusement Park in Virginia Beach and works it's way back to Norfolk in this July 1937 photograph. The electric lines o... (more)