A five-unit lashup of GP40's and GP40-2's from the B&O, SBD, and WM spend the weekend laying over in C&O's Quinnimont, WV yard.

5897,6189 is working the yard.

Almost looks like they are saying fill me up. As late as 70's or early 80's I recall a C&O employee pulling on the water column at Shelby and water actually came out of it. I was surprised to se... (more)

A westbound hopper train rolls past the C&O coaling tower as it leaves Thurmond. Set designers for the movie Matewan have designated the coaling tower as part of the Stone Mountain Coal Co.

A westbound hopper train rolls through Matewan... er, Thurmond. The classic West Virginia town has been selected as the set for the movie Matewan, which tells the story of a mine labor conflict in... (more)

Chessie C&O GP30 #3027 leads the Skinner down the Shipskin at S.Connellsville, PA. 11/11/1985

A pair of B&O geeps are getting air up on a train of loaded coal hoppers at Century. After they pull the train clear of the switch, the Western Maryland GP-40 at the right will be tacked on as the... (more)

Another eastbound coal train rolls by the station at Tunnelton, WV with a C&O SD40 and two B&O SD35's for power.

A pair of B&O GP40s bask in the fall sun at Cumberland, Maryland in October 1982. Even though Chessie System was the order of the day, one could still spot pre-Chessie paint schemes with regularit... (more)

A Western Maryland Geep leads a recently renumbered C&O Geep on a westbound freight out of Barr Yard. The C&O unit was previously leased to the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend and sported it... (more)

A filthy C&O SD rests near Plaster Creek on the east end of C&O's Grand Rapids area Wyoming Yard. Oddly enough at the time considering the amount of tonnage C&O/B&O moved(coal) they had many more ... (more)

The Chessie era ended four years earlier, but there are still plenty of vestiges of the past in this scene at Rowlesburg.

By Sept. 10, 1977, WM trains were using the B&O Cumberland SD to reach home rails at Cherry Run, WV. We are just west of Doe Gully as an eastbound WM freight approaches, led by GP9 No. 6415 and a... (more)

It is March 20, 1976 and we are at West End, west of Tunnelton, WV at the top of Newburg Grade. It guess the best way to handle this is left to right. On the left is WS Tower, which controlled a... (more)