Hauling a big mix of everything this mundane merchandize is dressed up today with a celebrity unit. The train is operating on a track that has bisected this small campus since Civil War days. Th... (more)

A westbound empty grain train heads west through southwest Virginia with the 8103 trailing second.

Daily Action. The daily container (pig) train arrives into Columbia off the Southern's W-Line from Spartanburg. Today was routine NS power, but with a nice horn and engine sound.

A single C6M leads P46 into Cary at last light.

In the last moments of daylight, NS H70 crosses HX Draw as it departs Croxton Yard for Suffern and ultimately Campbell Hall, NY.

A minor battle won, having topped the hump coming east out of Abingdon this mixed, semi local, that works the major yards, is beginning to get a little roll on as it progressed across the Old Domi... (more)

The daily local rattles along on the way out to the end of the line at the sand mines on a line that once went all the way to Hardeeville and carried Southern passenger trains to Savannah. One of... (more)

Under a clear sky, the signals at Control Point Belcher display a Clear Signal on a cool late Spring evening.

Slope Swing: NS 7579 leads a long NS 39G manifest train westbound through Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, along the West Slope of the NS Pittsburgh Line.

Under symbol NS 781 (Mayo, NC to Shire Oaks, PA), empty PGNX (Duke Energy Progress) hoppers, combined with NS 787 (empties out of South Carolina) are eastbound on the Lurgan District (Hagerstown ... (more)

A crewman rides point on this Conrail train enroute from Sayreville to Lakewood. The train is traversing the Southern Secondary through the Stavola Asphalt/Recycle Plant in Tinton Falls, NJ. In... (more)

A pair of GE's lead loaded Norfolk Southern coal train 778 as it crosses the floodplain of the Staunton River and heads towards the main span. The train is slowly rolling through the junction at t... (more)

NS 4822 " Thank you to our Railroaders "

Recently acquired NS 3983 ex CEFX 1016 sits waiting for service. It will eventually get rebuilt into an AC44C6M

Lilly Loads: NS 4528 leads doubled up coal train NS 596 eastbound through downtown Lilly, Pennsylvania, along the West Slope of the NS Pittsburgh Line.