This mom is trying to get her kid to pose with the recently painted & released SBVR locomotive #100 for dad.... Not me... I just happened to be there at the same time to capture this Kodak moment

There aren't too many places left where you can see an entire train barking up a mountain valley bracketed by roots blown 567s including a manned helper on the end. This train is just south of Rom... (more)

Between the charters and festival, it's business as usual on the SBVR...which means great looking and sounding EMD's running through some of the prettiest countryside in the East. This short train... (more)

Dinner Train returns to Petersburg

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.

Three units displayed under twilight at Petersburg durring the West Virginia Rails celebration.

The second section about to cross at Cunningham. Gotta love that paint scheme!

Looking more like Montana than West Virginia, we take in the southbound grain train headed for Pilgrims Pride in Moorefield.

The first of 2 sections of the Moorefield grain train crosses the South Branch, roughly halfway between Springfield and Romney.

The first of 2 sections of the Moorefield grain train heads up a short grade coming out of Springfield, WV.

South Branch Valley GP9 #6600 sits outside the company shops in 1993. It would be 15 years before I'd see 6600 again, but the next time it was in beautiful B&O Blue and Grey.

The South Branch Valley's Chessie-painted GP9, no. 6240, leads a short Petersburg Turn northward along the railroad's namesake river shortly after departing Petersburg, West Virginia. The water le... (more)