Four veteran Interstate Railroad employees on the Second Yard Crew pose with their motive power--INT number 25--on a fall afternoon in 1953. The occasion is the last use of the Consolidation. Left... (more)

If you thought the Interstate's RS-3s were the last such Alco units to operate at Andover, VA---here's some visual proof that another RS-3 worked there several years later. Westmoreland Coal acqui... (more)

The Fourth Mine Run on the Interstate Railroad is using a pair of "bald face" engines today (F-units, in the terminology of the crews who used them here). Southern F7A 4262 and F3A 4172 cut off th... (more)

Still standing after all these years, this concrete gate post at the former entrance to the Interstate's Andover Yard is marked "IRR" in recessed lettering. The access road to the yard was changed... (more)

An afternoon storm so typical of August in the Appalachians is brewing off to the south at Andover. The yard crew is cutting out a few bad orders before tying up in an hour or so. Andover was the ... (more)

Brand new Interstate RS-3 number 34 has split a switch in the east end of the yard at Andover on January 7, 1954. It would appear the lead wheel on the trailing truck picked the point. The orange,... (more)

With all the four-axle power out on mine runs, the yard crew at Andover has been forced to grab a hulking SD45 "hammerhead" to work the light rail of the yard Andover. Conductor Hill and brakeman ... (more)

A Southern SD35, plus two SD24s, stands just outside the "new" side of the shop at Andover. These units normally saw unit train service at the time, with F-unit and older GP7s and GP9s handling th... (more)

An Interstate Railroad mine run (using Southern power, since the short line's Alcos were shipped south three years earlier) do some switching at the west end of the yard at Andover. The old hopper... (more)

A westbound from Bulls Gap has just arrived at Andover Yard, and the power has cut off before backing to the "pit." The three SDs are doing all the pulling, since F7A 4249 is DIT (dead-in-tow). Th... (more)

It's the first day of consolidation of Southern and Interstate operations at Andover, VA. A Southern crew is handling the yard work now, but still using a pair of the Interstate's RS-3s. The engin... (more)

The Andover yard crew is taking their "minutes"--so the GP7 duo that normally worked the yard is tied up at the scale house.

Power for two radio trains is shoehorned into the cramped servicing pit at Andover. If you threw in some mine run power for the Interstate, this spot could reach almost gridlock at times.

Southern F7A 4263 sports a fairly recent coat of paint as it sits in the servicing area at Andover.

Flying white extra flags, Interstate Extra 4262 East, the 4th Mine Run, makes a switching move while passing through the yard at Andover. Two veteran F-units---F7 4262 and F3 4172 (a.k.a. "Big Sid... (more)