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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.

V80 heads north up the Shenandoah Valley line creating a powerful display of NS heritage as ex-SOU SD40-2 #3216 passes the old N&W signals at Lithia.

GP40-2 leads eastbound manifest across James River into Little Tunnel.

An SD45 slug set leads a rerouted hopper train on the Southern approaching Montview Yard and the wye that will put it back on its' routing to Roanoke and points west. The train was diverted from t... (more)

The sun has just appeared over the Blue Ridge Mountains as a 8 hour late 204 climbs out of the Shenandoah River Valley on the trip to Rutherford Intermodal Yard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. To the... (more)