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6 engines straight out of the 20th century head this M415 with a duo of YN2-painted locomotives leading the set. The 3 EMD's trailing 4th through 6th are deactivated and are being transferred to Winston, FL for long-term storage.

Amtrak’s Day 1 50th Anniversary unit #301 leads Miami-bound Floridian 41 with newly painted Phase VII P42DC #79 trailing second through Brunswick, MD.

L133 runs south through Franconia, VA as it completes its once-weekly trip to Northern Virginia on the RF&P Subdivision. There are typically very few cars for industries this far north but the little local never fails to make the weekly Wednesday appearance up here!

The original Norfolk Southern Railway heritage unit, NS ES44AC #8114, leads 25A east on the B-Line in perfect lighting.

This unmissable building, painted somewhat recently to say "Welcome to Fredericksburg" on all 4 sides, was the perfect subject of the picture with Amtrak Floridian #41 serving as the secondary subject.

Loaded Unit Coal C748 curves towards the Old Main Line Subdivision which will take the train the rest of the way to Baltimore, MD.

CSX SD70AC #4545 leads Baltimore-bound C748 past Point of Rocks, MD with a perfect Narrow Font K5LA.

CSX’s newest (and last) heritage unit, the Pan Am Railways #1981 unit, sits idly as M410 awaits a signal indication at Dahlgren Junction.

Long Hood Forward CSX ET44AH #3423 leads a 4-car L128 east onto Track 1 through Point of Rocks, MD

A comically small L128 rounds the corner in Point of Rocks with CSX’s most powerful locomotive model pulling just one empty rock hopper back to Brunswick Yard.

Local Shuttle L198 emerges from the 122-year old tunnel (originally built in the 1860’s but rebuilt in 1902) in Point of Rocks, MD as it rolls east towards Baltimore.

A duo of CW44AC's in CSX's YN2 paint scheme lead empty coal train E315 through Dumfries, VA. While a YN2 duo is not yet "impossible" to see, it is quickly becoming harder to catch as more are getting rebuilt/repainted.

One of the hotshots of the Hagerstown District, NS Intermodal 25A, races past the farmlands of Northwestern Virginia as it clears the 48.5 repeater in White Post, VA.

CSX Manifest M421 with two ES40DC’s in the lead rolls by the old and iconic B&O station building in Point of Rocks, MD.

Following M277, Intermodal I135 runs west along the Potomac River through Point of Rocks, MD. The old B&O station building still stands guard over the major interlocking between the Metropolitan and Old Main Line Subdivisions.

As the cloudless sky reflects on the undisturbed Susquehanna River, NS Autorack train 18N slowly navigates the Rockville Bridge as it prepares to enter Harrisburg, PA.

Two of CSX’s new-ish heritage units, the Baltimore & Ohio (#1827) and Western Maryland (#1852), lead the hotshot UPS Intermodal I031 past the Potomac Shores neighborhood in Dumfries, VA.

Over the summer, Amtrak began testing the ALC-42 Chargers on the Auto Train, as seen in the picture. This was the last official run of the test train with the Pacific Bend sleeper car trailing behind the engines.

Before this train even passed, we noticed how incredibly blue and beautiful the water looked on this amazing Saturday afternoon so, understandably, I made the river a feature of the picture.

CSX M652, a reroute due to the terrible flooding in western North Carolina, departs Clifton Forge with a new crew bound for Hinton, WV.