A Roger Puta photograph

The train is The George Washington A Roger Puta photograph

C&O EX Hocking Valley depot .

GP 30 3031 & GP9 6062 rumbles toward Shelby. This picture brings back fond memories for me as I lived in a apartment building behind the Coleman's ma and paw store. Many a times, I would lay in my... (more)

The West Shifter is done with its setting out of cars and is now heading out of town as it passes by the depot.

Dawkins Shifter rolls pass the former depot. Last passenger train ran back in 1963 using two RDC-4's with a baggage car towed on the back end.

Dawkins shifter motive power is tied up for the day. In the background on the left is the single stall engine house that was used in the steam days for light running repairs for the many 2-6-6-2... (more)

C&O veteran engineer Lon Venters Jr. is at the controls as 192 passes through Pikeville on the south end of town. The posted speed through the town was 30 mph. Knowing Lon I know he will waste no... (more)

Looking at the south end of town we have two truck mine tipples operations. Believe it or not there is five tracks in this photo. The first one on the left goes to the tipple with the truck in the... (more)

Having been fueled and sanded await the next call by the 300 ton coal dock now used to hold sand instead of coal From my slide collection. Photo by Mark Clark

From my slide collection. Photo by Mark Clark

One of the few with a steam generator . In the back ground was one of many truck tipple mines that was beside the engine terminal back then. From my slide collection. Photo by Mark Clark

Kicking cars in the yard. From my slide collection. Photo by Mark Clark

Chessie 614 struts out of Thurmond, WV with the Chessie Safety Express after a photo run by. The train had begun the day at Cliftion Forge, VA.

A C&O cab hop waits for a signal at 75th Street interlocking in Chicago