On my way to work I was lucky to catch a Herzog ballast train dropping ballast on the NS Wabash line located on the eastern edge of the NS Illinois Division, the Lafayette District. The train is s... (more)
On a beautiful winter afternoon, Norfolk Southern work train 92V works in Atkins Virginia picking up old ties along the main line.
On a very cold January night with wind chills as low as 2 above, an approaching 27V lights the way and illuminates the 92V as they bring their empty auto rack train westbound on the Pulaski Distri... (more)
On a cool fall evening, NS work train 92V reverses on the main past the classic Norfolk & Western signals and prepares to take the siding to tie down for the night after a long day of work.
Work train, looking a little scruffy with DIY markings, waits for an eastbound to clear before resuming trek to Bristol to pick up side-dump ballast stone cars.
3350 leads a rail train through Shawsville with fall colors starting to poke through the leaves and the crew put a pumpkin on the nose to show some Halloween spirit.
Work train 92V heads eastbound through Salem on the old Virginian with a B32-8 and SD40-2 leading an old NS AMERICAN crane.