Ivy Afternoons: A rare FRA inspection train rolls eastbound along the Buckingham Branch, led by CSXT 8435 an SD40-2. Seen here, the train rolls into the siding as it prepares to meet a westbound ... (more)

Ivy Afternoons: A rare FRA inspection train rolls eastbound along the Buckingham Branch, led by CSXT 8435 an SD40-2. Seen here, the train rolls into the siding as it meets a westbound empty coal ... (more)

BB Z631 with a speed lettered WM leader leased to the power short BB from Precision Locomotive Services seen dropping down into Clifton Forge just west of Nicelytown with 61 cars for CSX.

Forge Fall: WM 7471 leads westbound Buckingham Branch Railroad local Z631 westbound into Clifton Forge, Virginia, on the last stretch of their run for the day.

Millboro Maryland: WM 7471 leads westbound Buckingham Branch Railroad local Z631 westbound out of Millboro Tunnel in Millboro, Virginia.

Western Maryland 7471 eases BB Z631 onto the Selma Lead in Clifton Forge.

Whining dynamic brakes bounce off the mountain ridges and echo through rural Alleghany County as engineer Ian Whaley holds back his train on the descent through Crane, Copeland and Griffith before... (more)

Z631 shoves down the Stella lead in Goshen.

BB Mountain Jet shoves into Clifton Forge yard with Western Maryland 7471.

BB Mountain Jet waits in the clear at Fishersville yard with Western Maryland 7471 while a hopper jet passes on the main.

Buckingham Branch Mountain Local cruises past cold storage siding in Staunton, headed to switch out the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard.

If it weren’t for ditch lights, one may think this is a hot Alpha Jet thundering out of Big Savage Tunnel in 1970 enroute to Lurgan, PA on it’s journey along the Western Maryland’s share of ... (more)

A symphony of howling EMD 645’s rings out through rural Buffalo Gap, VA, announcing the mountain local’s arrival as WM 7471 leads the train’s assault on North Mountain Grade.

Buckingham Branch Z631 rolls past the Staunton depot with Western Maryland 7471 on lease.

Buckingham Branch Z631 with the Western Maryland 7471 leading clears up in the hole at Brand siding to let Z621 by.