A classic scene. Citrus-scheme E8's bask in evening sunlight at the SAL's Richmond terminal. Check out that tell-tale.

Heading toward Rivanna Jct.

Two relics from CSX's earliest days, an ex-B&O GP35 and a BQ23-7 of Family Lines heritage. Both locomotives are long gone from CSX's current roster.

Chessie Steam special glides past Richmond's Main Street station on a trip between Newport News and Richmond on the Peninsula Subdivision

Reflecting off the unused Kannawha Canal, a loaded phosphate train rolls off the Bellwood Sub nearing Fulton Yard as it passes a mini waterfall created from canal run off.

An eastbound Amtrak meets a Geep running light on the old C&O viaduct in downtown in the late evening. Water towers and chimneys of old factories dot the skyline and are reflected in the canal.

One of several SD45s that received CSX paint.

The long viaduct along the face of Richmond allowed the C&O to close a troublesome tunnel underneath the city. Apparently, in an attempt to reopen this tunnel in the 1920s, a collapse trapped an ... (more)

A coal train crosses a break in the flood wall which lets traffic into downtown Richmond.

Crossing the spectacular former ACL-RF&P viaduct over the James river southbound.

CSXT 4764 heads for downtown Beaverdam on her way back to Clifton Forge

Arriving downtown Richmond, motorists pass through the flood wall. The large gate beneath the locos can slide across the road to fill the hole in the wall and protect the city from the James River... (more)

Close clearance hardly begins to describe downtown Richmond. A northbound empty hopper train navigates past a warehouse and over the balcony of the Bottom's Up Bar. Probably not the most enjoyab... (more)

Southbound manifest Q409-05 rolls past douglasdale rd on her way south to Waycross, Ga. This part of the railroad in Richmond runs through a trench between the north and southbound lanes of I 195.

loaded phosphate train K848 comes down the hill off the Bellwood sub into fulton yard. Here the power will run around the train and tkae the loaded phosphate train to a fertilizer plant in Ohio.