V30 with NS SD60I 6759 and SD40-2 3255 crossing over the James River and Kanawha Canal at Great Shiplock Park. The train is en route from Richmond to West Point.

An empty hopper train for Shire Oaks slowly rolls past the Pitcairn Intermodal Terminal and will eventually pull up to a stop signal at CP Wing to wait for opposing traffic.

Only a couple months old, a Conrail SD60I awaits to depart east from the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Norfolk Southern train 201 slows down as it approaches the siding at Wilson's where it will meet 16T. 201 will hold the main before it continues south towards Shenandoah.

NS 16N rolls downgrade at Horseshoe Curve while 655 climbs upgrade in a 6 minute exposure.

NS 6754 (SD60I) leads an NS intermodal under an old NYC signal bridge in Elkhart, Indiana.

Eastbound with a loaded coal train at First St. for Washingtonville , Pa.

The sun rises over Brush Mountain as a westbound empty hopper train leans into the curve at the PT 225 signal bridge.

It's a soggy gloomy day to be trackside but I could hardly care as I chased this epic pure EMD quartet making magic noises over the old Boston Line through the Taconic Hills of Columbia County. ... (more)

Conrail SD60I 5599 is westbound waiting to get across the Calumet River draw bridge on the far southeast side of Chicago Mar 1997.

After crossing over South Chickamauga Creek, CSX Q581-22 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) thunders around the curve in the driving rain about to knock down the Tyner signal (MP WA-129.0 Tyner Holdout) on... (more)

An Ex Conrail SD60I & SD80MAC and a GE Rebuilt AC unit tackle the grade through Lilly with a heavy 12G in tow, the leader has a solid RS3L.

Q394 approaches the highway crossing at Keystone, Pa.

The morning mist is still burning off on a Sunday morning as Conrail's PIAL ( Conway-Allentown) behind a pair of “Altoona builts” comes whistling through Huntingdon, PA with 135 cars in rapid ... (more)