The 12-Mile Climb: The typically long 277 brings hundreds of containers west from the Port of Norfolk on the Christiansburg District as it reaches the top of a 12-mile-long incline. This incline s... (more)

N/S 3657 exiting Nemo tunnel on a snowy March day.

"Shared Right of Way"

A Path train zips by the PN-13 running around an inbound trash train for New Jersey Rail Carriers on a clear spring afternoon in Jersey City. This... (more)

NS 3657 leads 3 other engines over the high trestle at Dovel Hollow on a clear Sunday afternoon.

Norfolk Southern mine run U47 is stopped with a caboose on the "back leg" of the wye in Appalachia, VA. The caboose will be cut off here while the locomotive will couple up to an empty ... (more)

Southbound NS 173 approaches the Kay Drive highway crossing near Easley, SC. A "high and wide" load rides behind the motive power.

The Conemaugh Line is primarily an eastbound route for most trains. The exception is for empties returning from Keystone Power Plant. Here a train of MT's head west past the historic Tarentum Stat... (more)

A trio of brand spankin' new ET44AC units on their maiden voyage following delivery from GE in Ft. Worth, TX lead Jersey-bound intermodal 212 through Lowell, NC.

A trio (3657, 3655 and 3658) of new GE Tier 4 ET44AC's lead northbound NS 212 past the Vulcan Quarry (conveyor slightly visible above trees in the background) about a mile northeast of Liberty, SC... (more)