Looking just a little worse for wear this SOU/NS alumnus is a backking down the spur to serve an industry. She’s probably awaiting a rhinoplasty and a skin graft. Well a new paint job anyway. ... (more)

The "Silver Meteor" is running late giving me an opportunity to take a shot in daylight.

Built for ASAB. Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

IMHO the perfect southern shortline cabin car. I love that baggage door, so handy for company material etc. On this crisp autumn morning this car will add punctuation to one of two trains headin... (more)

Two eastbounds today! There's a low humidity chill in the air as the sun peeks over the pines in the east and crews are shuffling a few cars and those great old cabeese before heading out. Only ... (more)

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

So many variations on a model that sold so few units. Unlike the other Ts that CSX owned these didn't have "central air" and were equipped with an antiquated MU arrangement (air?) to ma... (more)

Photographer unknown, from my collection.

Trashing Alabama? This mixed freight looks like a stacker in the front but today it’s filled out to over 12,000 feet by a huge trash cut from the Northeast going to be transplanted where “sta... (more)

A westbound "overhead" empty unit coal train roars by the old C&O station now on the Buckingham Branch Railroad. Despite the name and the appearance of the locomotive's snowplow, this i... (more)

A violent thunderstorm is looming in the background as the local is heading for the siding to do some switching. About five minutes later SPLOOSH! and ten minutes after that the sun was out. Uns... (more)

There are several shots of this unit on RP.net when it was black and high nosed. Here it is in the company's rather attractive paint job, rhinoplasty complete and earning its keep as proved by ou... (more)

Parked behind the railroad's HQ this former Army unit is named "The General" and I suspect is something of a mascot. We couldn't find anyone to ask whether it actually operates. Built ... (more)

The great survivor. I saw this unit on an N&W local around 1966 and have followed it for years in the press. I had seen it rusting away and covered with vines. I'd been to Staunton several time... (more)

In the pouring rain BB's daily train is roaring up the steep grade, generating that Run 8 EMD sound that shakes the earth and vibrates the ambient air. The second and third career locomotives, in... (more)