The NS Safety Train has made its way to Chesapeake Western's yard in Harrisonburg for a week of classes and hands on training for the city's fire and rescue personnel. It has only been in town sev... (more)
University encroachment is slowly chipping away the city of Harrisonburg and the Chesapeake Western's Yard. At one point the now fenced lot was the home of a shoe factory and an additional siding ... (more)
A former CN loco has been restored and saved from the scrap yard by a local business. Only thing its needs now is some freight cars to stretch its legs out with on some lonely unused rails. I coul... (more)
The NKP 8100 is the third heritage unit to come to the Chesapeake Western. The hertiage units usually come by way of grain trains but for what ever reason this unit was sent to Harrisonburg to do ... (more)
Canadian Pacific Kansas City to St. Paul train rumbles through the quiet main street of Bellevue. The Mississippi River is just a mere 600 feet to the left of this sleepy little town and I wonder ... (more)