A former Chessie GP40 switches the old B&O yard in Clarksburg.

The Clarksburg Turn arrives from Grafton with a single GP38-2 and a caboose.

I stood on the route 50 bridge for several hours. Then snow fluries moved in and my feet started to freeze. Another great coal job from Grafton showed up with F unit and GP-9. I grabed the shot an... (more)

Neither rain nor snow etc. will keep the hostler from putting sand in these here engines.

At the time of this picture B&O had lost the mail contract and this run had been cut back to Parkersburg. So that is the explanation for one coach and one E unit. The thing that no one saw coming ... (more)

A weekend in the winter finds most local mine run power tied up. Even the terminal Baldwin switchers are taking a break. While out on the main GP30s and 35s are hualing through tonnage.

I took this grand winter shot on Christmas day during a rare December snow storm. To view the SP unit closer click more)

This image has the same feel as the image at http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=234278 The F unit geep combo was very common during this era.

I spent many hours at this location as snow showers came and went. Each shot I took here had its' own unusual look.

Without the mail contract, the metropolitan became a skinny train with lots of horsepower. The E unit provides steam heat. Click He... (more)

All of the power was out on road headed to and from coal mines except for this lonely GP30 and GP9. No one wanted the GP30 on their train that day. So I was the lucky one that day.

By this time the Engine house had been razed and the locomotives were serviced out doors in all kinds of weather. These units look betrayed but there is still life in them.

The GP35 was essentially a baby GP40. It was a little shorter and had fewer horses under the hood. It was kind of the transition loco between the GP30's and the GP40's. The B&O had many of them bu... (more)