The Staples Mill Road Amtrak Station abounds with Amtrak power this evening. Heritage Phase IV Engine #184 and Engine 18 wait for there respective duties on Sunday Morning. These trains will depa... (more)

Amtrak Heritage Phase II Engine #66 on Amtrak Regional Train #66 which originated in Newport News now passes through Richmond, VA with its next stop at the Staples Mill Road Station. April 2011.

Amtrak's Phase II Heritage Unit, AMTK 66, appropriately leads Northeast Regional Train 66 thru Hermitage Road as it leaves the CSX Bellwood Subdivision and enters the Richmond Terminal Subdivision... (more)

Amtrak Heritage Unit #156 will depart the Staples Mill Road Station at 8AM in the morning as Northeast Regional Train #84. April 2011.

SCL Bicentennial U36B No. 1776 was leading southbound No. 109 out of Acca Yard in Richmond, VA on Oct. 23, 1973. No. 109 was a hot Potomac Yard-Waycross manifest that operated via the former ACL.... (more)

SCL trainman J. Malcolm Dix was protecting the movement as a set of SCL power backed through Acca Yard enroute to the Bryan Park Terminal engine facility after bringing in a heavy phosphate train ... (more)

Kind of a rare situation to see these days, CSX Train W030 passes by Shiplock Park with Engine #8048 still wearing the old YN1 Paint scheme. This 3,000 horsepower SD40-2 unit was built in 1979 fo... (more)

CSX Train Y318 heads back towards Fulton Yard after having pushed Train #T337 up the grade at Dog Pond and then onto ACCA Yard. March 2011.

CSX Train F723 heads south as it gets ready to enter the Hopewell Sub just ahead. The train is led by senior power this afternoon - #7683 celebrates its 20th anniversary this year while the second... (more)

The early morning sun lights up CSX Train T337 as it passes by the old Main Street Station. A pair of leading GE units (AC6000 and C44-9W) is assisted by Engine #5412 (ES44DC) which is on the rea... (more)

CSX's southbound Hopewell Switcher was crossing James River in Richmond, VA on March 16, 1991, led by B30-7 No. 5551. This was the former SAL main line and was once home to trains like the "Silve... (more)

Two former NYSW B40-8s and a B36-7 await servicing at RF&P's Bryan Park Terminal engine facility on March 16, 1991. The power had brought northbound CSX TOFC hotshot No. 176 in from Jacksonville.... (more)

Southbound CSX No. 300 manifest slowly grinds upgrade at Hermitage Road in Richmond, VA on May 8, 1988, led by GP38-2 No. 2704, CSX's Tampa Division Operation Red Block unit. Actually, the train ... (more)

The southbound Seaboard System "Hopewell Switcher" was passing through downtown Richmond, VA on March 21, 1987 with two GP40s and a GP38-2. The "Hopewell Switcher" was a turnaround job that opera... (more)

Seaboard System B36-7s No's 5862 and 5845 are just in off a northbound freight and are awaiting servicing at RF&P's Bryan Park Terminal engine facility on June 8, 1986.