Switching on the leg of the wye leading to the Washington Subdivision, and Orange, Virginia

CSXT 580 West at East Gordonsville.

CSXT 649 West passes the APP marker signal at milepost 159 as it approaches Old Louisa Road.

CSX SD70ACe #4836 leads westbound train V65323 past the Klockner Pentaplast plant in Gordonsville, VA.

CSX CW40-8 7904 leads a westbound empty coal train at CP East Lindsay, milepost 165.1 on the Buckingham Branch Washington Subdivision.

Compromise joint bars between different weights of rail, on the siding at East Gordonsville, Virginia, on the Buckingham Branch Railroad (former C&O); now gone.

A westbound CSX train of empty covered grain hoppers stopped on the mainline. Trailing locomotive is UP 9173 (GE C40-8).

Amtrak's "Cardinal" left NS at Orange and is now taking the Buckingham Branch westward to Charlottesville.

Empty coal train rolls west as the snow falls.

Empty coal hoppers head to Clifton Forge via Buckingham Branch.

On the anniversary of BB's first run in 1989, a huge storm dumped a lot of snow around Charlottesville & Gordonsville. The next morning, #6 is seen eastbound at East Gordonsville.

Buckingham Branch operates 200 miles of CSXT's ex-C&O, with empty coal & grain trains headed from Richmond to Clifton Forge making up a big portion of the traffic. These ex-C&O signals no longer ... (more)

Lots of traditional C&O infrastructure here; line going off to the right is the branch to Orange, Virginia and the connection with the former Southern Railway (now used essentially exclusively by ... (more)

The Tidewater section of the eastbound Sportsman makes the station stop at Gordonsville. The station was unique, sitting in the middle of a wye.

The westbound Amtrak Cardinal swings off the connecting line from Orange past old G Cabin at Gordonsville. After a meet with its eastbound counterpart just a mile or so west, the next stop will be... (more)