GP30m 4253 in B&O sunburst scheme and a Chessie System bay-window caboose rest under the coaling tower at CSX's Sandy Hook Yard in Lynchburg, VA.
With the crew on board the B&O 4061 - B&O 4236 are heading west from the shops over to Talbot yard to get their train. B&O 4236 will be the leader as they head east to Buffalo.
In the late 1950s in southwest Pennsylvania, a maintenance of way worker takes a break from repairing a lineside telephone booth to observe the passage of the daily B&O RDC run from Pittsburgh. Th... (more)
A weekend in the winter finds most local mine run power tied up. Even the terminal Baldwin switchers are taking a break. While out on the main GP30s and 35s are hualing through tonnage.
Westbound Chessie System Safety Excursion
Chessie Sytems B&O Engine 3812 pulls a Special over the Chicago river. As tourist, we met this train only by chance as a surprise.
Early EMD mixes with camelbacks at Communipaw.
This critter caught my eye on the drive home, standing tall amidst CSX diesels. It turned out to be "standing" on a flat, perhaps destined for a rail museum...
B&O GP40 and a B unit lead a westbound freight over the swollen Potomac River at Harpers Ferry in 1970.
B&O E7A, E6B, E7A units arrive at the Jersey Central Elizabeth station with train no. 2, NATIONAL LIMITED, from St. Louis.
Baltimore and Ohio A-B-A units pull eastbound coal at Knoxville, just east of Harpers Ferry.
Baltimore and Ohio E8 A-A units are westbound at Elizabeth late in the day with train 3, THE DIPLOMAT, for St. Louis.
The Local to Courtright is leaving the Chatham yard @ 17:28 heading north with B&O 4811 and 7 cars with caboose 903682 bringing up the rear.
Power off DT41 at the fuel pad. B&O 4144 - B&O 4006 once serviced will head out later to continue their trip to Detroit.
