A pleasant surprise after endless, albeit somewhat older, EMDs was this former Southern unit acting as switcher/local power. Incidentally, I've always wondered what beancounter's machinations req... (more)

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)

Esthetically I like the looks of the older flexicoil trucks under SD40-2s ala Conrail. This unit was used on locals here for a while.

Carbo yard is on the tail of a wye on a branch that used to reach several miles north. A few years before this shot a huge mine was just up the road. This used to be a hotbed of coal hauling bus... (more)

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.

On one of those long days when the low sun lights the world richly with a little touch of extra red yet another empty hopper train charges into the dying light as they have here for about a centur... (more)

Longdale Leap CN 8857 leads empty grain train CSX G228 westbound along the Buckingham Branch through Longdale Furnance, Virginia, as the train makes its final push into Clifton Forge, Virginia.

Mountain M2S: CN 8857 leads empty grain train CSX G228 westbound along the Buckingham Branch through North Mountain, Virginia.

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.

A former Southern unit leads an empty hopper back to the coalfields and is crossing the crossover switch.

Westbound mixed freight and the greatest locomotive EMD ever produced.

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