Night shot of CSX C40-8 7525 in Grafton. Taken during the pre-digital days when it took 2 weeks instead of 2 seconds to find out if you guessed right on the exposure!

An ex-RF&P GP40 without dynamic brakes looks a little out of place in the old B&O's Grafton Yard.

A CSXT hopper train arrives at Grafton from the Clarksburg Subdivision.

Looks like it's about time to go to work

This kind of access is far more difficult now!

It's CSX now, but little visible evidence of change here

Awaiting its next assigment on the Mountain Sub

Chesie System had been infiltrating the the Baltimore and Ohio for several years when I took this picture of a long cut of empty hoppers heading to the coal fields south of Philipi.

Two veteran EMD units sit in the rain after completing a mine run from Phillipi.

Scenes like this were still fairly common along former B&O lines in the 80's. In 1988, CSX's Mountain Sub still had active towers in Grafton, Hardman, Rowlesburg, Altamont, Keyser, and Cumberland... (more)