September 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of operations at Lamberts Point Pier 6 in Norfolk, VA. To mark the occasion, NS applied a special paint scheme to coal hopper number 146313. The car was... (more)

The Central RR of New Jersey heritage unit leads the Ayer to Chicago intermodal train down the old D&H mainline as it rolls by a rural scene in upstate NY.

Looking south out of NS SD60M #6787 from an Engineer's point of view, several locomotive consists can be seen at Inman Yard's engine terminal tracks. Some of the units are ready to go to work on t... (more)

A crew is switching JBS with a remote controlled cabless genset. The genset is pulling big brother Dash 9 unto the turntable to move it to a different shall track.

The rain only added to P26's complications this afternoon. It took him almost an hour to get from Birmont Jct to this spot, King Plow. The reason, from listening to the scanner, was because someon... (more)

It's a starry night on the busy ex-N&W Pocahontas mainline as helpers sit patiently at Maybeury, W.Va., as a eastbound permeates the nighttime air while silhouetting the signals and foreground loc... (more)

NS is big into the Roadrailer service across their system. Some of the trailers have this NS-Conrail signs on them from the days when Conrail and NS join ventured into the service back in the 80's... (more)

The Fostoria District was pretty quite this Monday afternoon. Only thing westbound was this 307. Here 307 passes one of the few ex-Nickle Plate signals along the Fostoria District. West and East N... (more)

The empty oil train 65R, has finally caught up with train 37M ahead of them on the outside Chesterton slowing this hotshot down. This 65R west of Elkhart was making screaming time with little traf... (more)

In the past year the NS signal gang has replaced the old ex-NYC signal bridge here at Sandusky when they updated the connection tracks for traffic to go south here off the Chicago mainline south t... (more)

Eastbound hotshot #206 rolls east out of Archbold on an early Wednesday morning. Sitting in the Archbold Siding is an eastbound tied down for traffic. 206 is about to pass CP 327 which are the abs... (more)

A westbound loaded coal train from Shire Oaks, PA, to Chicago, IL, Union Pacific interchange, for Wisconsin Electric and Power Plant at Oak Creek, WI, passes the intermediate signals at MP 205. El... (more)

A westbound hotshot rolls pass the intermediate signals at MP 205. Elyria is on the outskirts of Cleveland's western suburbs. This train is on the Chicago Line working towards Toledo, 83 miles wes... (more)

A westbound empty auto rack passes the intermediate signals at MP 195, . Olmsted Falls is a small suburb on the west side of Cleveland.

A westbound freight train begins to accelerates after crossing over at CP 194 around train traffic. Eastbound Roadrailer train #262 is waiting to go east after this westbound clears CP 194. Olmste... (more)