An eastbound BNSF Z train meets a westbound unit autorack train at the top of the grade of Edelstein Hill on the former ATSF Chillicothe Sub. The searchlight signals at this location still stand t... (more)

The J storms eastbound under the coaling tower at Vicker on its morning return trip to Roanoke from Walton.

Eastbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train 228 crosses the Huron River in Monroeville, OH on its way from Bellevue to Brewster. A Wheeling SD40-3 leads a pair of former DRGW 'Tunnel Motors'. In addition... (more)

After a three year hiatus, Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 made a spirited comeback in 2016 pulling the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days Train between Denver, CO and Cheyenne, WY. Shortly after departing De... (more)

BNSF and NS GEs lead a loaded CSX crude oil train south across the trestle at the north end of Iona Island just after sunrise. Crude oil trains aren't as common as they used to be now as they were... (more)

NS 2680 leads an autorack train west, bound for interchange to the IHB at Blue Island, IL on a brilliant late summer evening. The CD 309 signals are the last surviving double bracket signals of th... (more)

Amidst a crowd of spectators awaiting the arrival of NKP 765, our first train of the day is westbound manifest 309 from Corning, NY heading for Elkhart, IN via Bellevue, OH. Traffic on this line h... (more)

Enola, PA to Knoxville, TN manifest 37Q creeps across the Rockville Bridge shortly after sunrise on what would be a beautiful summer day in 2012. Norfolk Southern discontinued train 37Q and counte... (more)

A pair of Canadian Pacific GEVOs lead a combined stack/freight train eastbound on the Portal Sub, approaching the Route 52 overpass just west of Donnybrook.

Westbound grain empties snake into the yard at Bluefield on a gorgeous summer evening. NS SD60E 6925 leads Southern Pacific 266, one of only a few SP AC44s not patched by Union Pacific.

BNSF and NS units lead stacks eastbound through the small village of Ransom, IL on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub passing a rather large grain facility, seen from the Route 170 overpass.

A pair of newly acquired SD90MACs lead a dash-9 on eastbound manifest 13T passing the newly installed automatic interlocking at CP COAL at Glen Onoko, PA in the Lehigh Gorge State Park. Reading, B... (more)

Less than 20 miles from its destination of Harrisburg, stack train 202 accelerates up the small grade out of Boiling Springs on a splendid late-spring evening.

Allentown to Bath local H75 takes the connecting track from the NS Lehigh Line to the Cement Secondary track heading north to work industries around Nazareth. NS 5175 is a unit not long for this w... (more)

Eastbound ballast loads, with a pair of former Conrail SD80MACs, overtake a heavier eastbound manifest heading for the Conemaugh Line, now approaching the interlocking at CP LEETS. A westbound int... (more)