Crazy fast, just insane! How dare a local passenger run go this fast up a local branch line? And on a trestle! Isn't this against some rule?

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The B&O logo will always be a classic, however long it is gone from Class 1 railroading.

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Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Romney, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 6604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

An F unit pulling a short freight waits for the higher priority passenger train to pass, in farm country, USA!

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Locomotive: EMD F7(A)
Location: Green Spring, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 722
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

A rural local passenger train makes it way past one of the many farms of West Virginia.

For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Romney, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 6604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

Rocking the diesel plume! Two vintage vehicles, which would you rather own?

For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Romney, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 6604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

Emerging from the (coal) mist! This rarely visible unit until recently served as a plant switcher for the Mirant Energy coal-fired power plant in Alexandria, VA. Usually hidden behind rows... (more)

The B&O lives! Winter runoff still passes by under a freight heading south to Romney, puled by an engine in the attractive B&O scheme, as the world waits for spring to arrive.

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Farmers load up as the local passenger train rolls by, having borrowed a colorful express engine because the regular unit was in the shop.

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Locomotive: EMD F7(A)
Location: Ridgedale, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: CO 8016
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

Spring Is Coming! Really! Or at least it did come in 2008 (and every other year during which I have been alive!) and it will come again. And then there will be lots of green and, in plac... (more)

The eastbound Capitol Limited passes through the modest yard at Hancock with its many switchstands, this morning decorated with snow, with a bit more falling.

Happy Holidays to All RPers! Nothing like seeing a manifest in the snow passing through a yard.

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Locomotive: GE ES40DC
Location: Hancock, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 5288
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 22, 2012

Oh, for the great expanses out ... east! The tree tunnels in this area usually preclude seeing much of a train from the side, but thanks to man's intervention in the form of three, count'e... (more)

CSX, EMD, call Jeff Gordon! This engine is in need of some decent paint. Not only have the noses in this series of engines gone really bad over time, but the shop has chosen to patch thin... (more)

Even trash can be beautiful! A trash train carries another load of the big city down into rural Virginia, here moving past the tidal pond at the Featherstone signal.

Another MARC pulls in on a Friday with passengers about to head for their homes and their weekends. The train will actually block the street and some passengers will get off right at the crossing ... (more)