In someone's backyard this EB intermodal is heeling into the superelevated curve at a high spot on this hill-and-dale line.

On a pleasant spring day this short intermodal, running westbound at this point, has gone in the hole for an eastbound coal train. I can imagine the one gentleman is explaining to the other that ... (more)

A westbound intermodal is at the location where trains often stop to wait to get into Bristol. Numbers change, but usually there is one train with domestic containers each way a day and one with ... (more)

Just as they have for decades another train passes Mr. Goodson's mailbox but today there is no garden between the road and the railroad indicating Mr. Goodson has gone. His unique old mailbox sti... (more)

In a rare move Bristol based local turn V19 has run east to deliver something somewhere in the morning. This must have been a hot load which couldn't wait for the V40s night run. Spring is burst... (more)

Heading a train that was abolished and replaced with 12T is a commemorative unit which has acquired "character", blemishes showing experience and longevity. What most of us getting old a... (more)

Short stuff. Awaiting an EB freight this tiny intermodal train can use our short passing siding, a relatively rare event. A good day for me.

This WB intermodal cruises past the approach signal for both CP Wyndale and CP Abingdon. The new 136# welded rail has been kicked out for installation later in the spring. Wyndale is a CP where ... (more)

A minor battle won, having topped the hump coming east out of Abingdon this mixed, semi local, that works the major yards, is beginning to get a little roll on as it progressed across the Old Domi... (more)

Rambling through on an eastbound excursion.

The leaves are leaving and the weakening sun flames on the horizon as the oddly numbered westbound freight tops another rise approaching the end of their crew day at Bristol.

Originally SOU, this model was unique to this system. Here one is leading a mixed freight that ran with an EB number on this line. So much has changed. The "back track" is totally gon... (more)

1065 leads manifest NS 127 west through Abingdon, VA.

Forty seven fifty, forty seven fifty, to I hear 5000? Brand new Juniata rebuild heads our daily intermodal which is once again thankfully, really intermodal.

Mastodon. In 1958, the Norfolk & Western Railway donated 433 (4-8-0, Alco) to the Town of Abingdon, Virginia as a monument to the end of steam on the Abingdon or Virginia Creeper Branch. B... (more)