NS 3552 leads the V86 as it kicks up fresh powder from the 10+ inches received this week in the Shenandoah Valley. Notice the EOT device hooked to the front!

Shenandoah Valley power rests at Staunton on a beautiful Christmas Eve. DGVR 40 - built for the C&O in August 1955 - has received a Shenandoah Valley logo and lettering. The second unit, SV 8701, ... (more)

16T's exhaust catches the setting sun as the train speeds north through the farmland of the Shenandoah Valley.

NS 3548 sits off the main with the empties to be returned SB to Roanoke, VA. Ex-BN CEFX 7077 sits in the second motor position as the Shenandoah Valley begins to experience some fall foliage.

Welcome to the Shenandoah Valley...you're not from around here, are you?

The mainstay of the SVRR, which is operated by WV based DGVR, GP9 No.40 moves a large transformer to a siding just outside of Staunton.

Heading north up the Valley

37Q heads south through the lush Shenandoah Valley

Shenandoah Valley pastoral as the day ends

NS's new Memphis-Harrisburg/Rutherford intermodal proceeds north through the Shenandoah Valley behind run-through power

Former US Army/Defense Logistic Agency RS4TC 87001 working on the Shenandoah Valley RR near Verona, VA in 1997.

The short 95V ducks under the former C&O's Mountain Subdivison, which is now owned by Buckingham Branch. CSX still has trackage rights over the line. Canon EOS 50D

A westbound empty hopper train passes the former C&O station in the little town of Goshen on its way to Clifton Forge as the sun drops under the dark treatening clouds just minutes before sunset. ... (more)

Local V90 crosses the James River as it heads north up the old N&W Shenandoah Valley line. The CSX James River Subdivision (former C&O) is directly below running along the north side of the river.