Remarks: Passengers embark at the old C&O station stop at Clifton Forge. The tri-weekly Cardinal must surely be one of Amtrak's most unlikely long distance trains----but it's well patronized.
Remarks: The deadheading New River excursion train equipment, P91927, bears to the left at JD Cabin at Clifton Forge and onto leased Buckingham Branch RR territory en route to Orange, VA, and interchange with the Norfolk Southern, while a CSXT grain train bears to the right and down the James River toward Richmond, VA. Equipment was being moved from Huntington, WV, to Spencer, NC, for excursion use there November 1 and 2.
Remarks: A celebrity graces the Clifton Forge Yard, as the famous runaway unit leaves town with a MOW train bound for Gladstone, VA. The Smith Creek Yard is visible behind the train, home of the C&O Historical Society's Classic Passenger cars, and Cabeese. A lovely spot in the Alleghany Highlands to watch a train go by.
