Crew for todays DT 41 getting ready to take the units from the engine service area over to Talbot yard to pick up their train. Power is B&O 3742 & B&O 4196. Time was 10am.
Chessie System and early CSX-schemed units bring a train of coal east across the Concord Turnpike crossing at Sandy Hook Yard in Lynchburg, VA.
Former C&O #614 being serviced during a steam special
ST 98 passing the silos for the Oxford farmers Co-Op in Muirkirk @ 06:51 with B&O 4807 - B&O 4811 and 17 cars with caboose 903681.
SA 99 passing through West Lorne @ 14:29 with B&O 4804 - B&O 4819 and 11 cars with caboose 903862. In the background on the right is the West Lorne station.
NI 42 just west of Elgin Road 66 (MP 122.9) in Middlemarch. The train is 1.5 miles away from the west end of Talbot yard in St.Thomas. B&O 4121 - B&O 3748 with 30 cars and caboose 903270.
CSX local passes former Reading Railroad Telford, Pa Station now serving as a restaurant.
DT 41 going through Merlin @ 12:46 on it's way to Detroit. C&O 4171 - C&O 4828 - C&O 4824 with 64 cars & caboose 903270
NI 42 accelerating east after meeting DT 41 at Rodney at 10:09. C&O 4087 - C&O 4274 with 57 cars & caboose 903241
DT 41 just east of West Lorne heading west with a meet coming with NI 42 at the next siding at Rodney. Train consist was C&O 4278 - B&O 4020 with 41 cars and caboose 903203. Time was 10:25.
DT 41 westbound with B&O 4442 - C&O 3917 - B&O 4161 - B&O 4024 - B&O 4204 - B&O 4048 with 83 cars and cabooses 903295 & 903110
Power off ST 98 having cut off their train in Talbot yard has arrived at the shop tracks to be serviced. The time recorded in my logs was 08:15am Lead unit was B&O 3835 with B&O 4811 trailing.
SA 99 arrived at Blemheim @ 15:39. Power cut off to wye the units. Departed at 16:02 with WM 6403 leading the B&O 4811 & 62 cars and caboose 903682.
NI 42 entering Talbot Yard with C&O 4098 - B&O 4101 with 41 cars and caboose 903293
Tons of GP9's are retired, being sold for scrap, and finding new owners...