An E8-E7 duo sits at CUT after bringing in the Cincinnati Limited from New York City earlier in the day. The PRR's train was a competitor to the NYC's Ohio State Limited, but by 1966, both runs we... (more)

Late in its career, an ex-L&N U25B is on the point of a work train at Appalachia, VA.

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal freight winds its way down from Tehachapi and around the loop.

April 8, 1990: At Roseville, CA, a conductor on this eastbound Southern Pacific freight walks to the head end as the brake test is being completed on his train. Shortly, these big SD45Rs will powe... (more)

"The Last Shot" This shot isn't particularly good, but it's significant to me. It was taken late in the day (light-wise) at Crosby, KY, on the Cumberland Valley Subdivision, on Wednesda... (more)

Remember the days when Southern Railway didn't mind if you found an open vestibule and opened the top half of the Dutch door to look out? This is eastbound 4501 smoking her way into Rural Retreat,... (more)

On a cold February 1985 day in Dante, VA, the mix of predecessor units in this former Clinchfield coal terminal leaves no doubt about how things have changed since the formation of CSX. Seaboard S... (more)

Sometimes great photos are taken more by accident than skill. Case in point: This is L&N train 65, with freshly-painted F7 number 845 on the point, at Appalachia, VA on the night of January 28, 19... (more)

A stack train takes the siding at Wytheville to meet an eastbound general freight back in 1998. Traffic on this once important interroad passenger route was down to two freights a day when NS was ... (more)

A southbound unit coal train rattles the windows of the old Toe River Free Will Baptist Church at Huntdale, NC. This is the former Clinchfield Railroad main line, but since CSX, it's been the BR, ... (more)

The Mojave Desert is a magical place at either sunrise or sunset. On March 4, 1995 the temperature is dropping fast as the sun disappears behind me. Another in the endless parade of Santa Fe inter... (more)

On Crooked Hill, March 19, 1989: A southbound Stilesboro (GA) unit train for Georgia Power comes out of the old northbound bore of Tunnel 8 on Crooked Hill behind four (4) U30C's. The old GEs w... (more)

August 29, 1998 was CTC Board Magazine's annual "Day in North America." I decided to go out early to see what I might capture on film. It was barely daybreak at the junction between NS a... (more)

This shot of a southbound Seaboard System (former L&N) coal train coming through Bee Rock Tunnel (47 feet, 7 inches...) on May 22, 1985 had a little reflected light off one of the internal elemen... (more)

L&N Alco C420s idle away at the engine terminal at Loyall, KY on April Fool's Day, 1979. The unit in the foreground is a former Seaboard Coast Line unit that came over to the L&N's roster in 1978.... (more)