An eastbound train crosses the New York Central, Jackson to Grand Rapids branch at the GTW Charlotte station. This station was manned and the interlocking was still active in September of 1977.

A westbound train is waiting for a clear signal just outside Farmville, Virginia, in October of 1983.

A short eastbound train is leaving the yard at Roanoke. Two units, 14 cars, and a caboose - a great model railroad train.

Norfolk & Western 8476 is putting a fresh caboose on an westbound train at Roanoke.

This Seaboard switcher is pulling on a cut of cars in the yard at Jacksonville, Florida, in May of 1986. Today, yard crews don't have to worry about cutting off and spotting the caboose.

These Seaboard units, still painted in Seaboard Coast Line livery, are at the engine terminal in the West Columbia yard. The CSX merger is just a month and a half away.

A southbound train is waiting for clearance to enter the yard at Petersburg, Virginia, in October of 1983.

The Chessie Safety Express, pulled by C&O 614, is speeding through McKendree, West Virgina, on its way to Hinton.

B&O power waiting for assingment at the engine terminal at Brooklyn Junciton on the B&O Ohio River mainline.

A unit coal train from Danville is coming off of the wye at St. Albans and heading for Russell.

C&O 4286 gets a little help from Hulcher after derailing in the siding on the Big Coal side at Sproul, West Virginia, in September of 1982.

Two Pennsylvania Railroad commuter trains, now run by Conrail, sleep away the weekend in Valparaiso, Indiana, in August of 1978. One train has a pair of GP-7s and the other has a pair of "torpedo... (more)

Ex Penn Central FP-7As 4332 and 4365 at the roundhouse in Jackson, Michigan, in September of 1977.

Three fallen flag units, hastily marked for Conrail, are heading to their train in the yard at Elkhart. None of these units made it to the CSX/NS sale.

A brand new Conrail B23-7 waits with a mix of Reading and Penn Central power at the engine terminal at Elkhart, Indiana, in September, 1977.