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)

A short-lived train around here, this decimated trash train is westbound at the tiny town whose “square” is a triangle, formerly a junction with the Saltville Branch.

This unit is leading a Roanoke NRHS excursion which will turn here and head back home. The units in their bright new paint have started up the east leg of the wye, which once led to the Saltville... (more)

Northbound intermodal #202 speeds by the CPL's at 'Washington' before dusk

Southbound manifest 37Q passes the CPL's at Glade Spring

SUPER PUMPKIN? NS and Relco went to great lengths to make this a non-locomotive. After sitting all day to allow trains to pass this rail train shoved from Abingdon to pick up rail and had a tota... (more)

Approaching a meet with intermodal #278 this WB mixed freight has nears the signal for the east end of the long siding which is oddly positioned well east of the actual switch. The track makes an... (more)

The "wrong way trains" meet where the west end of the siding used to end. That's 112 in the hole. Had something to do with end points. For some time back then CSX units were rather com... (more)