614 storms through Hurricane WVA on the C&O mainline.
After departing Elmore Yard, near Mullens, W.Va., just minutes before, No. U81 rumbles south(timetable west) along the Guyandotte River on the former Virginian Railway, with a train of empties en-... (more)
Crazy fast, just insane! How dare a local passenger run go this fast up a local branch line? And on a trestle! Isn't this against some rule?
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Extra baretable X139-15 heads Westbound through Kenova towards Russell.
Time freight 188 crosses the Ohio River and the town of Kenova, as he passes the stopped J17 and continues eastbound towards Williamson.
The B&O logo will always be a classic, however long it is gone from Class 1 railroading.
For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)Locomotive: EMD GP9Location: Romney, West Virginia, USALocomotive #: BO 6604Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: March 23, 2013
An empty coal train heads west towards Russell under the NS at Kenova.
It's late afternoon and the sun is beginning to set, as the sound of a heavy coal drag begins permeating the quaint valley of Elkhorn, W.Va. Soon, No. 826 crawls around a tight curve as the train ... (more)
An F unit pulling a short freight weights for the higher priority passenger train to pass, in farm country, USA!
For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)Locomotive: EMD F7(A)Location: Green Spring, West Virginia, USALocomotive #: BO 722Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: March 23, 2013
A rural local passenger train makes it way past one of the many farms of West Virginia.
Rocking the diesel plume! Two vintage vehicles, which would you rather own?
NS #6704 blasts out of the Elkhorn Tunnel with a westbound hopper train.
BNSF #7743 leads eastbound freight train 18M through the classic N&W signals at "Hull".
37Q south
Leading three empty ammonia nitrate hoppers toward the CSX/Corman interchange at Thurmond, the R.J. Corman local powered by a pair of former SP tunnel motors slithers along the original C&O Loup C... (more)