Pounding the NS/CSX diamond at Charles Town, WV is NS northbound 12R

Headed west past the Charles Town, WV diamond towards the quarry at Middletown, VA is empty stone train CSX K975. A recent wind storm was unsuccessful in depriving the area of its peak foliage so ... (more)

Charles Town, WV 5/10/2013 - About three feet north of a public grade crossing, Norfolk Southern Police took the cheap and easy way to create a no tresspassing sign. One wonders how many bypassers... (more)

The Savannah & Atlanta Heritage Unit hustles a Norfolk to Harrisburg double stack train through the West Virginia panhandle.

Charles Town, WV 2/9/2013 - On a brilliant and windy winter afternoon, CSX stone train K-975 pounds the Norfolk Southern diamond along the former B&O Shenandoah Subdivision. K-975 operates between... (more)

Charles Town, WV 2/9/2013 - Norfolk Southern SD-60 6700 hits the NS/CSX diamond as it crosses the former B&O, now the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision. The southbound train is 37Q with an assortment of ... (more)

Dashing through downtown Charles Town at a clip of 10 mph in front of the American Public University Eastern Panhandle Campus in low light conditions is K796 on the old B&O Valley Branch.

Charles Town, WV 11/20/2012 - A B&O CPL signal stands sentry at midnight along the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision, protecting the diamond crossing of the Norfolk Southern's "H-Line" to Hagerstown. The... (more)

Proof that not everything works as it should. This, the westbound B&O CPL guarding the CSX/NS diamond in the distance at Charles Town, WV is only one of two active B&O CPLs in Jefferson County, WV... (more)

Lit under a Half Moon, the "diamond" where the old Shenandoah Valley Railroad ie Norfolk and Western Railway H Line and the old Winchester and Potomac ie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cross on the f... (more)

This lone single mast Norfolk and Western CPL signal guards the south approach to the former N&W/B&O now NS/CSX diamond crossing in Charles Town, WV. The signal still serves the railroad as it has... (more)

An NS northbound flips the Norfolk and Western CPL at Charles Town, WV

The NW and B&O diamond is just ahead and protecting it are CPLS all around. This is the northbound NW signal and code line which for now still stands. This and other signals like it are in danger ... (more)

Charles Town, WV 11/20/2012 - Just before midnight, a thin layer of fog clings to the edges of the field as the moon begins to set over the Norfolk Southern / CSX diamond which crosses the NS "H-L... (more)

Once where grain silos and the former N&W Freight Depot stood a few months ago is now a bare lot where this photo was taken. The siding and switch are still intact as 38Q flys by after midnight. T... (more)