Westbound approaches Thurmond..... Coal empties for southern West Virginia ease into Thurmond, silhouetting the Chesapeake & Ohio depot and a bad order hopper car. Soon to be greeted by a c... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors are at a crawl of less than 1 MPH as they pull 10 loads of export coal out of the Pax loadout, uphill toward Mount Ho... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 leads UP 844 toward Ogden, UT, exiting a pair of mainline tunnels just east of Morgan, Utah.

The Little Kanawha River Railroad's SW1200 duo pose in the evening light on the south side of Parkersburg. This obscure short line railroad uses former B&O tracks to serve industrial customers alo... (more)

Fire up 610! Hey, if they could raise the millions to restore and operate Norfolk & Western 611....without a contract for a place to operate, surely someone could come up with the scratch t... (more)

As the sun sets behind Angel Stadium, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583 departs the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (the Amtrak/Metrolink/Greyhound/transit bus station in Anahe... (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)

On christmas eve, the iconic double red arrow "Churchill-Pfeil" RAe 4/8 # 1021 of the SBB from 1939, made a festive round trip with about 100 guests, eating and drinking on the train. Th... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of run-through CSXT CW44ACs enter the only tunnel on R.J. Corman's former C&O Loup Creek Branch near Mount Hope. The two CSX locomotives are retur... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific GEs and 100 empty grain hoppers descend Price River Canyon on their way to Helper, Utah, from Provo. The empty train has already navigated Soldier Summit and will soon exit... (more)

There might not be any photo lines or a Big Boy 4-8-8-4 barreling down this right-of-way along Union Pacific's Overland Route, but this obscure rail line in one of West Virginia'a most remote sect... (more)

BNSF Railway GE ES44C4 No. 6708 leads a high priority, 9-car intermodal train east along BNSF's Red River Valley Subdivision near Ashtola, Texas.

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 2-8-2 No. 483 leads a photo freight across Cumbred Pass, nearing the summit on its way to Antonio, Colo., from Chama, N.M., during Trains Magazine's August 2018 ph... (more)

A BNSF Railway manifest rolls through Bena, passing the iconic Southern Pacific searchlight signals at Sandcut on its way to northern California from the Midwest.

The drone of a distant coal mine conveyor belt is drowned out by the lead locomotive of a westbound empty coal train approaching Hull, west of Iaeger, in the middle of NS's Pocahontas District bet... (more)