Coal drag U276-03 works hard upgrade at Thurmond, passing the 1922 coaling tower, C&O signal cantilever, and downtown main street area. Though Thurmond is now maintained by the National Park Servi... (more)
NS coal drag 742 thunders eastward at Falls Mills, VA on its way to Bluefield. From there, crews will take this train to one of the several Duke Power plants scattered throughout the southeast.
Northbound freight passing through Apex, NC in Feb. 1975
CP 112 heads through the plant at Marathon West
A coal train is parked on the siding at Rush Run as humid evening set in along the New River at Thurmond. The dispatcher has just lined up an eastbound coal train at Thurmond after a westbound emp... (more)
Located back in the hollers of West Virgina is this unusually setup of ex-N&W CPL's signals. These CPL's are the westbound approach signals for Roderfield on the NS Pokey Mainline. As night sets i... (more)
An eastbound coal train drags thru the curves at Delorme. Located MP 454 on the Williamson District, 15 miles south of Williamson on the busy NS mainline. Didn't see alot of run thru power on NS c... (more)
A CPL that is showing just how much time that has passed by over the years. This signal guards the control point at Ought One on the NS busy mainline between Williamson and Bluefield, ex-N&W count... (more)
The beginning of the CSXT's Mountain Sub starts here at the terminal at Grafton. Once a B&O busy mainline, now services for a major coal terminal for the CSXT. The 4 GATX geeps are the power of t... (more)
CSXT only schedule trains on the Mountain Sub is Q316/317 freight trains. Here Q316 passes thru Altamont and is about to start down 17 mile grade towards Cumberland. This mainline mainly is a coal... (more)
A westbound train crosses the stone bridge in Johnstown. 125 years to the day, this bridge withstood the famous Johnstown Flood.
Metra 195 departs Berwyn with a outbound train.
Bound for Charlotte, PRR E8 #5809, with a number of high rollers in tow, crosses over at the Salisbury, NC, Amtrak station.