CSX 1776 leads CSX Local Train B456 through the diamond in Charlestown, WV. Here, the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision intersects the Norfolk Southern Hagerstown District.

On a warm summer day, a short intermodal led by the Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage unit heads south towards the Virginia Inland Port and eventually Norfolk, VA.

Evitt's Run flows alongside the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Valley Line at Charles Town, WV as grain destined for Winchester, VA passes by. The train with 107 loads originated on BNSF in So... (more)

A Winchester bound grain train from Brunswick, MD and the Midwest passes the last of the remaining B&O Color Position Light signals in the Eastern Panhandle of WV.

Norfolk Southern Allentown, PA to Birmingham, AL manifest train 15T helps create this scene at Charles Town, WV on the former Norfolk and Western Shenandoah Valley Line that will soon be altered. ... (more)

The former Baltimore and Ohio Valley Line, from Harpers Ferry to Strasburg passes along the floor of the Shenandoah. In Charles Town the line crosses the former Norfolk and Western at grade and is... (more)

"GP ONE FIVE"
Many thanks to member Jim Johnson for the heads up. CSX GP15's 1552 (ex CR 1655) and 1553 (ex CR 1657) as well as GP40-2 6388 (ex SBD 6642) lead a string of emp... (more)

227 flies down the NS H line on a beautiful March day.

A rare daylight stone move heads down the Shenandoah Sub with a rent-a-wreck leading the way.

FURX 5557 leads K975 across the diamond at Charles Town, WV for the bi-weekly run to Middletown, VA to be loaded with limestone. The lead unit is Ex. N&W GP38AC 4147, and the trailing GP35 RDMT is... (more)

A splash of orange leading the Valley's only even-numbered southbound intermodal.

Chessie-painted GP40 traverses the Shenandoah Subdivision as it rolls through the crossing with NS' H-line at Charles Town.

"Clear Charles Town"
Protecting the CSX/NS diamond is this classic N&W CPL signal as a northbound NS train illuminates it and the right of way ahead in this 2 minute exposure.

W980 crosses the NS/CSX diamond in Charles Town, WV on it's way west. A rare Hi-wide movement was made Saturday afternoon along the old B&O "Valley Line." Four transformers were shipped from Bruns... (more)

Charles Town, WV 11/2/13 - With storm clouds hanging overhead, the westbound K-975 stone train winds through the countryside of northeastern West Virginia along the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision. The... (more)