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

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.

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.

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

This M410, which was tasked with taking some foreign power to Selkirk, had 4 different paint schemes on the head end with the leader being YN3 #749, following by YN2 #16, CP #8849, and KCS #5016. Quite the colorful lashup!

Loaded coal train C206 passes by one of the most historic covered bridges in the country, the Humpback Bridge near Covington, VA. CSX has their own bridge adjacent to the landmark that accommodates two tracks over Dunlap Creek.

For whatever reason, after leading L211-08 into Hinton a couple days prior, 1776 was put in charge of a combined L211-08/L211-10 to complete the two trains' journeys to Clifton Forge. The large local is seen here preparing to work the Covington, VA yard.

The full body paint “Spirit of our First Responders” unit paired with the New York Central heritage unit, one of CSX’s new heritage locomotives…this is what CSX railfans dream of!

I wouldn’t swim in Powell’s Creek, but the body of water does make for some interesting pictures from Leesylvania State Park. M410 reflects off the dirty top of the water with the Family Lines heritage unit trailing second.

Southbound train M409 crosses the Occoquan River Bridge in Woodbridge, VA. Trailing 4th is a CW40-8 locomotive bound for storage.

The duo of 911 and 1853 - the New York Central unit cross the Anacostia River Bridge on M422.

A freezing January afternoon following a decent snowfall saw me make the trip to the Brent Point Road crossing to catch what I’d been after for months - a well-lit shot of 911 in charge of a train. Safe to say I succeeded.

If you look closely, you can see the back end of this train still rounding the curve in the distance meaning it was at least a mile and a half long. Ever since PSR was implemented, behemoth trains such as this have become a normality.

Though it was running as a Mid-DPU on M410, my picture of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois heritage unit turned out much better than I could've hoped for given the train's speed and the dense cloud coverage.

As the engineer of Amtrak 79 put it as they passed this train, “Western Maryland lives on, y’all look good.” The lighting and scenery were about as good as it gets for a drone shot of the Western Maryland heritage unit as it led M301 along the Potomac River.

CSX ES44AH #3211 leads daily Intermodal I135 under the South WB signal bridge as it passes Brunswick Yard.

As wind creates ripples across the top of the water of Powell’s Creek, CSX Intermodal I135 crosses the Powell’s Creek Trestle with the Père Marquette Heritage Unit in the lead.

It's a late early June evening in Nampa, as a manifest is working the yard on main 2 awaiting the all clear from the conductor on the next move, while a stack train blasts off on Main 1 with a fresh crew for the overnight jog to Pocatello and beyond eastwards.

Sitting lite, CSX’s Brand New Heritage Unit CSXT 1967 “Seaboard Coast Line”. It poses at South Charleston under the blue light of the sky

It's a beautiful Idaho July afternoon as a hot UPS Z races through Idaho eastwards with a big friendly windshield wave from the conductor at every bit of track speed and one awaiting them at Sebree.