Three green New Hampshire Northcoast geeps (including a GP18) sail across the causeway over the Union Meadows Pond.

Pan Am was a very interesting, if often troubled railroad. It was born from a railroad in a similar situation, and never quite emerged from the problems that plagued its predecessor, Guilford. How... (more)

Two now-scrapped SD80MACs bring up the rear of a train, grinding around the curve in Lilly. There were two more 80s on the head end...these were the days, it turns out!

The WE Medora signals light up as J780 enters the block. This was the last intact siding between Seymour and Mitchell...but it has since been torn out. All the trappings of a classic line are here... (more)

Amtrak's Cardinal bursts out of the fog that has settled along the Ohio River, passing the last C&O Cantilever along this route.

Empties head west for more black diamonds on a perfect early summer evening.

A classic F40PH leads a commuter train out of Union Station, under the trilight signals.

As the shadows of the hills creep in, Amtrak's Chicago-bound Cardinal departs its flagstop in Thurmond, deep in the New River Gorge, as seen from the Concho Rim Overlook.

For all of its active life as a station and interlocking tower, the Clare Depot sat in the wye between Ann Arbor and C&O mains. Today, it has been moved down the C&O a ways and further from the tr... (more)

10 BNSF GEs rumble towards Tunnel 2.

A single geep throttles up, rounding the curves into Butlerville. This scene is pure B&O...for now. The signals at Butlerville just to the east are facing replacement, and these may well follow.

As the bridge indicates, this line was once double-tracked as Hocking Valley's mainline to the heart of its coal traffic in Nelsonville. Today, the line becomes choked with weeds when summer comes... (more)

"Homeward bound...I wish I was." N&W 2156 continues its slow journey back to its museum in St. Louis, after five years at home in Roanoke.

13.4 miles left to Berkeley Run Junction, and three A&O geeps are hauling 80 loads of coal past the intermediate signals in Phillipi. This line is the last place to find B&O CPLs in West Virginia,... (more)

Do you think they lose cable every time a train passes? I'd live there anyway, gladly! Three A&O geeps arrive in Alexander to pick up 80 cars of West Virginia coal from the Beech Mountain.