C&O GP30 3014 trails GP39 3914,GP40 4101 & GP 5999 East bound out of Midland's Dean yard.

C&O GP35 3534 leads a GP35 & GP7 E. bound out of Midland MI

C&O GP9 5925 at Midland's Dean Yard location of Dow Chemicals plant.

C&O GP7 5700 trails GP35 3534 & GP9 5984 into Midland MI on a hot August day.

C&O engineer Lon Venters is at the controls of No. 97 as it rumbles through Pikeville in the early morning on this overcast day. On the right is Circle C Coal Company's Sowards tipple.

This is the caboose of the West Shifter that comes out of Shelby Ky to work the town of Pikeville and tipples along the way.

Getting them ready for a mine run.

Westbound work train just south of the town of Pikeville. Notice the new Cut in the mountain in the background. Within a year this track will be abandon and the railroad plus a highway and a rive... (more)

Good news, she's running cool, bad news, air pressure is a little low...

Late in its service life this old geep displays the accumulated effects of the CSX maintenance program.

WB local on the Mountain Sub arrives to do the interchange with N&W. The N&W part of the station was gone by this date.

Former C&O 6253 gathering rust in the siding at Levisa Jct.

This is the C&O Allegheny type at the B&O Railroad Museum. The sophistication of this locomotive is seen in the design of so many details. The high pressure steam pipes are a most usual configurat... (more)

A C&O westbound passes nearby Conrail Goodman yards on it's way to Peru, IN. A C&O (Chessie System) westbound on now defunct C&O Cinn. to Chicago line 30 miles from the yards at Peru, I... (more)

Early C&O power brings eastbound train out of Russell, KY.