An empty coal train pulls out of Clifton Forge bound for Hinton

Train time at Clifton Forge on a foggy winter morning.

Break time at Clifton Forge yard. Crewmen warm themselves around a pot bellied stove during a pause from their switching chores. The engineer takes opportunity to clean the cab window of his engin... (more)

A 14mm pilot perspective of the newly repainted C&O 614.

Back before Clifton Forge was seriously downsized...

An Amtrak sleeping car attendant stands at the ready to assist any boarding passengers at Clifton Forge, VA as Amtrak's Chicago-Washington Cardinal makes its station stop. A respectable number of ... (more)

The eastbound Amtrak Cardinal has just entered the Mountain Subdivision at JD Cabin, en route to Staunton, Charlottesville and on to Washington, DC. This was the traditional passenger route during... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Cardinal is making its station stop at Clifton Forge as a gaggle of CSX and Conrail units await assignment on the right.

By the 1980s, Chessie had pulled all of C&O’s U25Bs out of service and stored them in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Here, parked beside the Clifton Forge Locomotive Shops, a string of nearly thirty re... (more)

While the "Presidential Express" will now never turn a wheel, it will live as a dream of what could be at Clifton Forge....but would look even better back in its C&O lettering.

The lightning bugs start to emerge from the trees, as the stars swirl above a country crossing near Clifton Forge. A stopped Westbound, damaged by storms on June 29th, continues to wait on a new ... (more)

C&O 614 with her fairly new coat of Hunter Green. They re-painted over the lime green highlights, thankfully.

This old gal will soon get a pretty new coat just in time for Spring. Repainting in progress at the C&O Railway Heritage Ctr.

Putting what little bit of a winter behind us and looking ahead to Spring, we look back from the February of this month, during the one and only significant snowfall of the 2011-2012 Winter season... (more)