The sun has just crested the top of the mountains in the Shenandoah Valley at Stuarts Draft as NS 15T makes every bit of track speed enroute for Roanoke on its way to Alabama.

Southern painted NS SD40 No. 3170 leads E14, relief for P94, south through Thomasville, NC on a comfortable April night. This was such a treat to see on the high iron of the Piedmont in 2016.

A look inside a fresh CSX Tier 4 SD70ACe as it idles away on a frigid December night.

The Milky Way makes itself known in the sky on a Summer night over CP Summit in Vaughn on the Hagerstown District. The former Norfolk & Western CPLs stand guard just as they have for many, many ye... (more)

A flared SD70MAC leads a short Q693 over Copper Creek headed south along the former Clinchfield.

The Milky Way is apparent looming over the MP 783 intermediates on a clear Summer night in 2020 along the BNSF Glorieta Subdivision near Chapelle, New Mexico.

A loaded grain train heads east along the former C&O bound for Candor, NC on a cloudy morning.

On a cold and Cloudy New Years Day of 2014, I was lucky enough to catch the Piedmont & Northern in operation. Here they are seen passing under Main Street just outside of Lowell, NC.

A scene that is on borrowed time. A daily routine of BLU T31 pulling 'the bottom' which is the track of outbound cars from the paper mill in Canton, NC is coming to a close due to the mill announc... (more)

Fresh from the paint booth in Altoona, PA, the Reading heritage unit shoves NS 27A under the Southern signal bridge at Lowell in the dead of the night.

Eastbound grain loads rolls through Balcony Falls headed for Richmond and eventually, North Carolina.

Grain loads for Richmond head Eastbound at Buttons Bluff crossing the James River on a cloudy afternoon.

A little over an hour after sunset along the old N&W at Ingleside, WV, the stars are shining bright on a crystal clear night with the old CPLs still standing guard just as they have done for an un... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern T59 works "Haywood Siding" at Waynesville.

An eastbound coal train makes an appearance rolling through the historic community of Thurmond passing under the classic C&O cantilever signal on a muggy July afternoon.