An eastbound train leaving Bluefield, West Virginia, in November of 1980

Power for an eastbound coal drag is passing through an unusually empty Avis yard in October of 1981.

The Loup Creek shifter is pulling some loaded hoppers past the Thurmond Post Office in October of 1980. Standing in this spot today you will not see any water tanks and the U.S. Postal Service pu... (more)

A westbound train of empty hoppers moving through the yard at Clifton Forge, Virginia, in October, 1983.

C&O and Western Maryland power waiting for assingment at Richmond, Virginia, in October, 1983.

A westbound train passing Prince, WV, on the C&O in October, 1980. The classic C&O wooden tower is the abandoned NI Cabin which will remain for only a short time until the CSX cleanup campaign a f... (more)

A westbound B&O train crossing the Conrail Ft. Wayne mainline at NS Tower in Lima, Ohio, in Septermber, 1983.

An eastbound mine shifter is passing the old yard office at Elk Run Junction, West Virginia, on a gloomy March afternoon in 1982. This building was replaced in 1984 and a modern yard office repla... (more)

A busy Hinton engine terminal in the fall of 1981. This area is now a weed covered field with only the shell of the coaling tower and foundation of the roundhouse visible.

East end of Handly yard on the C&O mainline - all that is left in the year 2006 is the shell of the coaling tower.

Light power headed for their train at the west end of Handly yard on the C&O mainline in August of 1982 - today this is a weed covered field - the entire yard was dismantled in the 1990s.

Grafton, West Virginia, engine servicing tracks in the days before the downgrading of the B&O mainline.

C&O 614 pulling the Chessie Safety Express across the Hawks Nest Bridge deep in the New River Gorge of West Virginia in October of 1981.

GE electric switcher built in 1917 and used at the C&O locomotive shop in Huntington, WV, with the proud crew. This unit has since been sent to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

Detroit & Mackinac engine 977 unloading the coal fired, steam powered, car ferry Chief Wawatam at Mackinaw City in June of 1979.