I love riding trains and I love taking pictures of them. Sometimes both come together. Thanks to SBVR for a great all day excursion to the festival.

With a combined 100,000 lbs of tractive effort, Shays 11 and 6 take the 10-car, Cass Railfan Weekend double-header across the first of two bridges over Leatherbark Creek. The train's destination... (more)

Take the high road or the low road? Passengers get to experience both with this switchback...

Engineer L.L. Fuchs & Conductor L.O. Byrne have the final 2009 trip of the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Historic Beverly Excursions running right on schedule as it approaches the timetabl... (more)

Cass Shays 5 and 11 doublehead the Railfan Weekend passenger train into Spruce. Unfortunately the gorgeous weather that morning did not hold out for the majority of the weekend.

The roar of 567's fills the Cheat River Gorge.

Classic WM power on home rails. Railroad: West Virginia Central Railroad
Locomotive: EMD FP7
Location: Spruce, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: WM 67
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 14, 2008

Western Maryland Shay #6 pulls her excursion train across the Tygart River and into Elkins Depot during her 4-day visit in July of 2008. The visit was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversar... (more)

The D&GVR's Cheat Mtn Salamander passenger train rumbles through the Shaver Fork of the Cheat River valley on former Western Maryland Railway rails. On ... (more)

On a pretty summer morning, 8016 waits while passengers load. She's on the rear of today's train, and will lead on the way back to the terminal.

Shay 6 performs a photo run-by in the rain at Cheat Bridge as it makes its way back to Cass from Elkins. As an irrelevant side note, a raindrop hit me square in my left eye just after I took this ... (more)

Here's a view of Western Maryland Shay #6 running in reverse as she pulls her excursion train from Belington, WV back to Elkins. The shot was taken from the deck of the Rt. 151 highway bridge. ... (more)

The sky has just began to open up as Shay #5 along with Shay #4 come to pick us up after a photo runby during the 2008 Cass Railfan Weekend.

A colorful train for a gloomy day: the high bridge over Shaver’s Fork plays host to a Mountain State RR & Logging Historical Assoc. excursion.

The pride of the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, the Durbin Rocket departs the yard for an excursion along the West Virginia's Greenbrier River. The power is none other than Moore-Keppel ... (more)