The Strasburg local returns north across a small wooden trestle in Winchester with a nice sunset in the background.
The WW102 heads light to Gore over the "Sandman Branch." This portion of the line has not seen any revenue moves since January of this year when the sand mine in Gore closed.
The WW102 services my scrap yard. I recently rehabilitated a portion of track that was buried/out of service to accommodate 5 cars at a time vs 3. This is one of the first runs of 5.
L129 heads south through downtown Winchester on a nice fall afternoon with many trees peaking.
WW102 passes part of my scrap yard with a new crane in the foreground and a relatively new scrap gondola owned by one of our customers, FE Trading. If you notice closely the cars are already lo... (more)
The fall foliage is peaking as CSX L129 heads down the closest thing to street running we have in these parts.
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)
A scene of the past, and may never be repeated again. Winchester & Western’s “Sandman” run to Unimin Sand Mine in Gore, VA is no more as the mine has halted operation, resulting in no revenu... (more)
A GP35 road slug and GP40-2 are tied up in Winchester on the Shenandoah Subdivision.. CSXT 2281 has an interesting history, built as Louisville & Nashville GP35 1107 58 years ago.
CSX D788 departs Winchester for Strasburg Junction as the sun begins to set.
Power off D791 rests in Winchester.
The Winchester and Western strolls through Winchester, VA with empties in tow for the sand mine at Gore on Tuesday September 3, 2019.
Using shared trackage rights with CSX, the Winchester and Western heads south through Winchester for a couple of miles before heading west. Here the Sandman passes by the former Zeropak cold stora... (more)
D788 notches by the corner of Cork and East in Winchester on the way to Straburg.
