Class Y6a #2169 goes for a spin at Shaffers Crossing.
Class SB #248 works the yard.
Y4 #2084 gets hostled at the Schaffers Crossing engine terminal.
#33 was only one year into service at the time it was photographed.
Class EL-2B #125 makes a move under the wires.
In commemoration of his 800th photo accepted to the RP.net database, John presents doubleheaded Y6b class #2176 crossing over in front of his camera. Note the impressed onlookers across the track... (more)
Classic N&W steam action in Roanoke in this Summer 1954 scene as train #46 rolls through downtown behind J-class #605. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
SCL C630 2213 heads up an extra south out of Acca Yard in Richmond, Va in October 1967. Initially several ex-ACL locomotives received the SCL "speed lettering" logotype and numbers under the loco... (more)
SCL Extra 618 North is working just north of La Crosse, Va handling a 72 car unit coal train enroute VEPCo's Wheelwright facility, just south of Richmond, Va. We find a mixture of SCL power today... (more)
Three EMD GP40's are wide open as SCL No. 175 snakes through the deep cut at Bracey, Va. The piggyback train is about to exit the "Old Dominion" into North Carolina on this early spring day in 19... (more)
Westbound Virginia Rwy freight passing through Kumiss, VA in this May 1958 scene. [Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink]
Eastbound Virginian Rwy coal loads working upgrade near Clark Gap, WV in February 1957. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
N&W Y6a #2170 resting between trips at Roanoke, VA in this 1957 winter scene. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
N&W 131 resting at Shaffer's Crossing in Roanoke, November 1956. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
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