A few Chessie System C&O extended vision cabooses were painted in a variety of ways, all carrying words for railroaders to live by. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
Railroad history that would soon be lost. A Chessie caboose and a few loaded hopper cars populate the small yard at Thurmond, WV. Adding to the scene are the Engine House and various other steam e... (more)
The Chessie Safety Express heads east through Summerfield, IL.
A 1966-built GP40 lends a hand to Amtrak, as the Capitol Limited passes Q-Tower and the Sand Patch helper pocket.
Chessie System (C&O) GE B30-7 8260 and (C&O) GP40-2 4383 at Willard, Ohio in January 1985. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.
Chessie System Steam Special laying over in the yard at Norwood, Ohio
Chessie System (C&O) C26 class bay window caboose 904121 built in 1971, on CP Rail at Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Wish I had spent more time on the old B&O West End. A westbound hopper train is leaving M&K Jct. as it crosses the twin Warren truss bridges above Cheat River. In November of 1985, both bridges we... (more)
A C&O GP40-2 waits beneath the coaling tower for its next call to duty.
A GP40-2 lettered for the Baltimore and Ohio leads a matched set of EMD units on a westbound hopper train just west of Clifton Forge.
An EMD GP40-2 leads another EMD unit and a GE on a westbound freight as it departs Clifton Forge on a beautiful fall morning.
At the Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, PA, one can see what is perhaps the brightest engine in museum inventory anywhere in the United States. The 1980 General Electric built B30-7 ex-C&O... (more)
Chessie System WM GP9 6417, former Western Maryland GP9 number 42.
Chessie System B&O GP30 6938 with GP40-2 4409 at CN's Fort Erie yard on December 31, 1983.
