An eastbound intermodal roars along toward Glade siding. Nowadays the code line is gone as is 4109, the extending siding switch is right about here and the woodchucks have a metropolis right abou... (more)

A nice looking former Southern unit is in charge of this westbound merchandise which has just passed to old west end of the siding on its way to a crew change at Bristol. Nowadays the siding exte... (more)

A local is making its way back east and has had to go in the hole for something. Today the code line is gone. The siding is now 10000'. Somebody mows the grass in the foreground and I'm still n... (more)

Normally the V37 is a local turn that comes out to Rural Retreat or so and heads home to Radford. For some reason today's version is hotfooting it for Bristol on the main at the old CP. The sidi... (more)

It's a humid day, looks like a shower coming, bossy is resting and NS is delivering new rail for increased traffic on the Bristol line. They did it again a couple of years ago. Nowadays bossy i... (more)

A westbound stacker on the main line back when we seemed to have a lot of foreign power.

Because of the locations where this train began and ended it ran through our area westbound but with an even number. On the date they are laying back off the siding awaiting a meet with an eastbo... (more)

In those days the daily local usually showed up and often had to meet someone giving great slide opportunities.

Not CP Washington now, CP Washington prior to lengthening of the siding. This westbound freight has just met the local (caboose to the left). Some locomotives just seem to follow you around. Th... (more)

With the old Southern wye in Bristol long out of service 611 was obliged to turn in Glade and be towed backwards to Bristol to head the passenger excursion back eastbound. Here a lowly freight lo... (more)

NS 15T, with the Southern heritage leading, comes to a stop at CP Washington in Glade Spring, VA.

15T rolls by a stopped eastbound manifest in the siding in Glade Spring, VA.

After meeting its EB counterpart at the long siding this high class semilocal is accelerating away toward Bristol, the next point where it switches. Interestingly there is a large woodchuck "... (more)

I like nice round numbers. This eastbound intermodal has just met #127 and heads out by the town "square", but Glade is so small it's actually a triangle.

A westbound freight with a celebrity and a resurrected SD70M has been routed into the siding for a meet with an eastbound on this date. Even with a little "patina" the celebrity is look... (more)