New Chessie System boxcars direct from builder BFF (Berwick Forge and Fabricating Corp.) heading to Newberry Yard have just passed PP&L's Montour Steam Electric Station, now Talen Energy's Montour... (more)

For a couple years into the Conrail era, the Chessie System continued to use its ancestral Baltimore & Ohio trackage rights over the former Reading and Jersey Central to run freights from Philadel... (more)

When the Western Maryland’s dieselized, it purchased twenty GP9’s as part of the roster. As the WM retired F7’s, RS3’s, and switchers in the mid-1970’s, parent Chessie System moved twent... (more)

Chessie System Steam Special laying over in the yard at Norwood, Ohio

A light power move along the Daytons Bluff corridor on a gloomy Christmas Eve day. The scene brought back memories and images of the video to the R.E.M. song Driver 8 which featured Chessie Syst... (more)

A caboose painted up in CSX's predecessor, the Chessie System, sits in the siding the end of the S&C Sub in Rockwood,

Hartwell Railroad's GRWR # 6525 is a GP9 engine that was built for the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad in 1957 by EMD. After the merger with Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Railway and Western Maryland (W... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio GP30 No. 3001, along with Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 No. 4335 and sister C&O GP30 No. 3021, all in Chessie System paint, sit at Barr Yard at Riverdale, Illinois, on a cold and foggy... (more)

Susquehanna's former B&O bay window caboose (NYSW 0121) shows off a relatively new coat of red paint with no lettering (yet) added. The original yellow paint had faded and rusted to the point whe... (more)

Chessie System (B&O) GP40-2 6327 original Nos.4429, with former Seaboard System GP38-2 2562 original Nos.4052 westbound on CP Rail at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Chessie System (C&O) C26 class bay window caboose 904121 built in 1971, on CP Rail at Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Wish I had spent more time on the old B&O West End. A westbound hopper train is leaving M&K Jct. as it crosses the twin Warren truss bridges above Cheat River. In November of 1985, both bridges we... (more)

Full Moon Fever (One of the best albums of all time)... Just shy of 53 years old is CSX 8407 seen here in work train service on a tied down W097 in the hole at Wawbeek siding. Long exposure catche... (more)

Stopping short of the Nicklesville Road crossing in Resaca, GA (MP WA-83.8 SE Resaca) is the massive 12,350 long manifest CSX Q581-11 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) which is on it's long trek to Tilfor... (more)

“Cascade Green v2.0”
Shortly after its October 1983 purchase of the Western Maryland Railway between Westminster and Highfield from Chessie System, Maryland Midland initiated excursi... (more)