Passing the Historic Signals. On its way through the valley, 12Z passes the remnant N&W signals at Arcadia that are still in use.

ES40DC 7646 and AC44C6M 4024 pull a string of cars forward at Old yard in Spencer NC. As the sun sets over the horizon, it casted a fiery orange glow on anything reflective.

NS 7646 & NS 9732 lead a 47-car CN 529 past Turcot Ouest.

Eastbound manifest NS 18M rumbles into Bluefield, Wv overtaking an eastbound helperset along the way.

213 hustles south through Gastonia by the Amtrak station and the water tower.

A westbound intermodal rounds the curve at the Amtrak station in Tyrone.

CP/NS 930 is rounding the curve on the approach to the Westport Station on a bright cold January morning.

23Z heads west through Latrobe with an interesting ES44DC leading. 7646 lacks the white "Unibrow" that most NS units have.

NS RoadRailer train 267 slows to a stop to wait for a signal and permission through the mess off track in Madison IL simply known as "SH".

Shortly after daybreak, the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Red unit passes the Mammoth coal loadout, northbound on the former NYC West Virginia Secondary toward Charleston.

In beautiful morning light, the engineer on No. 23G throttles up the two GE's on the head-end of the train, after meeting opposing westbound 37Q at Glade Spring, Va., as the train prepares to make... (more)

NS 7646 and 4 ES40DC sisters lead an empty coal train past the old N&W CPLs at VN interlocking as they begin to climb the grade toward Christiansburg. The track diverging at right is a crossover t... (more)

NS 7646 leads a coal train down Main Street past the Orthodox Church in West Brownsville, PA.