A WW train, light power and empty hopper cars shop-bound, head by "Smith's Curve" on the approach to Gore. This area was hit by flooding a few weeks earlier and required some significan... (more)
A W&W train heads to the shops at Gore with some covered hopper cars to be cleaned past some beautiful Virginia countryside.
On a nice late summer morning, a very rare non-revenue freight train on the line to Gore with 9 W&W hoppers en route to the shops to be cleaned, heads through Indian Hollow.
After the Covia sand plant shut down in February 24' (and rail operations a month earlier in January 24', the only traffic on the line to Gore was light power to the locomotive shops. On August 2... (more)
WW102 heads back from Gore, passing several blooming red bud trees.
The WW102 heads north with a lone car from Continental past a blooming tree. Later in the year a former B&O and WW caboose would be set in this area by our NRHS Chapter, the Northern Shenandoah c... (more)
The WW102 prepares to depart Gore in the midst of an ice storm. That day was one of the roughest days on my camera equipment ever but still glad I did it. A little over a year later the sand min... (more)
Under an impressive sky, the WW crew has finished its work and prepped a train for the morning to head to Gore. This is the base of operations for the 102 crew at Clear Brook.
The WW102 crew takes a single car down CSX trackage in downtown Winchester, Virginia to access the "Sandman Branch" where the customer, Continental, is located. The George Washington H... (more)
The W&W 102 train passes my scrap yard, Hub Scrap in Winchester, VA. I largely moved my operation from Hagerstown, MD to this site in 2019. It had been the Zuckerman Company's site since the mi... (more)
