A Norfolk Southern manifest heads towards Philo, Illinois, with a specially painted SD70ACC trailing.

For the first time in years, Great Lakes Central had the privilege to operate run-through power on a unit grain train, this of obvious NS origin. With CSX increasing rates on cars, NS jumped in an... (more)

For the first time in years, Great Lakes Central had the privilege to operate run-through power on a unit grain train, this of obvious NS origin. With CSX increasing rates on cars, NS jumped in an... (more)

Darkness begins to set in as a Hill Run climbs the 2.2% grade up to Clark’s Gap on the former Virginian.

At the abandoned station one might imagine a ghostly operator OS for the passage of this westbound train trundling TopGons back to the coalfields in a scene that is becoming far more rare as time ... (more)

NS B09 is heading west on the Chicago Line near CP 482 and a young railfan gives a friendly wave to the crew.

Get your shots while you can. The consensus is this is the last summer for many retro signals across the country. Here a manifest from Detroit splits the westward facing signals at CP 320 of the... (more)

NS 9584 leads a mixed freight down the Marion Branch past a position light signal which Trussell told me will start to be replaced some time in the future.

NS 9584 leads a mixed freight down the Marion Branch past a position light signal which I have been told will start to be replaced some time in the future.

Triple Crowns westbound roadrailer train rolls through the town of Sussex on its voyage west towards Minneapolis.

Usual mid morning train 22A departs the NS Bristol Yard about an hour before sunset today.

NS 9584 awaits a crew at Moore, just East of Bull's Gap

A fairly short NS 236 crosses the Holston River with a very nice BNSF Warbonnet GE trailing