Lon Venters Jr. is in charge of 97 as she rounds the curve. In the back ground is a coal drag in the siding that will head straight into the Shelby yard a few miles away. We see the C&O was repai... (more)
The B&O coal dock stands silent over Lake Erie. In the left center are two of the "barneys" that pushed loaded cars up the slope to the loader, where the contents into the car would be unloaded a... (more)
It's not a going away shot, but you're actually looking at the back end of both locomotives. B&O GP9 6604, on the left, was set up for long hood forward operation as built. By contrast, GP9 6640 ... (more)
A westbound hopper train rolls past the C&O coaling tower as it leaves Thurmond. Set designers for the movie Matewan have designated the coaling tower as part of the Stone Mountain Coal Co.