Ballast train

Early CSX mixture of power

Three Chessie engines, WM GP40-2 4318, CO U30B 5350, and BO GP40-2 3753 lead a Seaboard System unit on the final approach to the summit of Sand Patch grade.

Big footed Chessie cats haul a coal train West on the P&LE main at College Station. Four axle units still ruled the fleet at the time, as CSX had over 700 GP-40 & GP40-2's, so catching these big u... (more)

The restoration of the caboose at the Great Allegheny Passage trailhead in Connellsville is now complete. The stenciling and signs were just recently added by the local HObo model railroad club. T... (more)

Approaching Cumberland at Viaduct Jct. in August 1976. Note the rider in the cab of the third unit. Presumably, the fireman's rule is still in effect.

B&O I-12 "Wagon Top" caboose C2436, freshly painted into the Chessie System scheme, rests between runs in the B&O yard at Cumberland, MD on Nov. 1, 1975.

The return leg of the Henry Turn is northbound on the Peoria line behind a trio of new GP15Ts. At Bureau Jct, the train will enter the mainline and head east.

The Henry Turn pulls interchange traffic from the Iowa Railroad just west of the junction between the Peoria and Quad Cities lines in Bureau, Illinois. In the photo, they are passing an IRRC U30B ... (more)

Fairhope, PA, October, 1998 - A former B&O GP-38 in Chessie System colors leads a former Seaboard System SD-40-2 downhill along the winding Wills Creek, deep in the mountains along CSX's Sand Patc... (more)

When CSX took over operation of a section of the former Rock Island between Blue Island and Henry, they used all sorts of geeps, and - once in a Blue Moon - U-boats. After sufficient numbers of GP... (more)

Cumberland, MD 8/9/2008 - On its debut run returned to WM colors, Western Maryland GP-9 number 25 is on home rails once again as conductor Richard Markle lines the crossovers at the WM's Cumberlan... (more)

Ridgeley, WV 5/18/2008 - After years of weather had faded its Chessie System paint, Western Maryland GP-9 6400 was preparing to be backdated--taken back to her original black and gold Western Mary... (more)

The homeward-bound leg of the weekday turn out of Montgomery is headed south with a pretty healthy train. GP40s had been prevalent on the old WofA from the late 1960s onward, but the paint on this... (more)

The bay window has been altered into a bayless version on this Chessie System caboose, still wearing it's B&O lineage.