After a brief pause just outside the town of Romney, the 47 loads of grain get under way, crossing over Route 50 just west of town. The GP9 and GP38-3 are in notch 8 as they work to get the train ... (more)

It's a beautiful May morning in the West Virginia mountains, and the daily South Branch Valley crew is almost done prepping the days run. CSX had just delivered a grain train over the weekend, and... (more)

Snaking its way west across Norfolk Southern's 'B-Line', the hotshot intermodal train is running at restricted speed after getting a defect detector not working message a couple miles back. The tr... (more)

Working around the curve at Glen Lynn, Virginia, a loaded tidewater bound coal train is stretched past the old power plant, once served by the Norfolk & Western railway. The rear of this train is ... (more)

With just shy of 11,000 feet of train in tow, a pair of ES44AH's lead intermodal train Q354 up and down the hills of Caroline County on a warm January evening.

After running into 10+ hour delays the day before, N&W J-Class 4-8-4 #611's ferry move from Roanoke to Strasburg, PA is back on the move on the morning of August 20th. Seen here crossing the famed... (more)

It's a warm August evening, and Norfolk Southern intermodal train 227 is running well behind schedule as it heads west on the 'B-Line'. Seen here having crested the grade, the somewhat short train... (more)

On a gorgeous June afternoon, the two newest units to come out of the CSX paint booth lead a high/wide extra train up the former RF&P mainline. ES44AH #1776 leads, with #911 trailing. In tow are t... (more)

Having just left Ogden yard, a UP grain train is preparing to head west. On point area trio of SD70M's, an SD9043MAC, and a Southern Pacific AC4400.

It's a beautiful morning in the state, and the James River is running a tad high after some nasty thunderstorms rolled through the night before. Still facing residual delays from a derailment a fe... (more)

My annual pilgrimage to the Nations Capitol wouldn't be complete without shooting some trains with the area landmarks. Pulling up to a stop signal at CP Virginia, the Roanoke regional is running a... (more)

With the sun breaking through for the first time after the snowfall, Amtrak train 89, bound for sunny Savannah, Georgia rolls across the Rappahannock River bridge, just a couple hours into their j... (more)

The Buckingham Branch has finished the days work, and the pair of GP variant motors are tied down on the 'Depot Track'. Not long after they had shut down, loaded rock train W654 is seen headed dow... (more)

With a late fall snowstorm having dumped a few inches of the white stuff throughout Virginia and much of North Carolina, track geometry train W003 is running down #2 track while testing for defect... (more)

With fog so thick you could cut it with a knife blanketing the Virginia countryside, the small town of Stony Creek is woken up by the sound of loaded ethanol train K485 blasting through town just ... (more)