Winchester & Western train 102 at Clear Brook

Winchester & Western 102 at Clear Brook

Classic W+W power heads through Clear Brook plowing snow and checking switches after a significant winter storm hampered the area.

B459 crawls up to the loadout at the Carmeuse facility in Clear Brook on a nice summer evening.

An empty stone train idles at the Carmeuse facility in Clear Brook with the "Chesapeake and Ohio" heritage unit leading.

WW power idles in Clear Brook for the weekend as probably the most beautiful sunset of the year develops in the background.

B495 heads into the plant at Carmeuse with a recent SD70MAC rebuild leading and a nice sunset in the background.

WW 102 heads south with one load from my facility bound for CSX and 7 empties from NS that we will load later that day. We can only load 3-5 cars at a time but the WW came twice that day and we... (more)

With a nice sunrise in the background, the second locomotive of WW102, an aging GP10 makes a tremendous cloud of smoke after idling for the entire weekend and finally doing some work. Almost look... (more)

After a delayed start due to the snowstorm the previous day, WW102 heads south to the CSX interchange with some of our scrap loads in tow.

The WW102 heads out of Carmeuse on a cold Monday morning with a fresh snow and a nice sunrise.

With a beautiful sunrise and fresh snow, WW102 gets his train at Carmeuse to head north. Some of the product in the hoppers is lime for cat liter at Clorox just 12 miles or so north.

WW102 trots up the WW WST (former Conrail Winchester Secondary Track) with five cars, including four loads of scrap from my yard.

WW102 wraps up his day in Clear Brook with I-81 congestion visible in the distance. This is the site of the Frederick County Fairgrounds.

Just another day for the mill in Clear Brook; it has seen plenty of trains, probably being there since PRR and possibly Cumberland Valley RR days. What appears to be a turkey vulture enjoys his ... (more)