Reading’s big, home-built T-1 4-8-4s never looked so festive hauling Pennsylvania coal. But in 1977, steam entrepreneur Ross Rowland has decorated the 2101 in vermilion, yellow and blue for a su... (more)

Running on ex-CRI&P rails, the homeward-bound leg of the Henry turn passes the Putnam elevator as it travels northward on the Peoria branch toward a connection with the main at Bureau Junction.

B&O 7600 East St. Louis, IL December 20, 1986. Chessie received only a single order of SD40-2's for 20 units in January and February of 1977. B&O Units 7600-7619.

A Western Maryland SD40 is going solo up the Potomac Valley in the spring of 1981. No. 7570 was built as the WM 7470 in 1966.

Chessie System C&O SD50 8574 westbound at Niagara Falls, Ontario on December 14, 1986.

Chessie #3035 along with an ex-C&O caboose leaves out of the yard running long hood first on a local.

This odd coupling of a GE B30-7 and 2-8-4 No. 2716 has begun to draw a crowd as adjustments are being made to the big Berkshire. The occasion was a DC Chapter NRHS round trip from Alexandria to C... (more)

Eastbound 765 blasts through the Coal River Trestle with one of the 1985 New River Trains.

Two 1966-built SD40s are pushing an eastbound freight up the old B&O mainline, with a Vesuvian plume of smoke emanating from the ex-WM unit, No. 7572.

In January 1985, Ross Roland was running tests for his ACE 3000 project with C&O 4-8-4 #614 between Huntington, WV and Hinton, WV. The eastbound train had stopped here just west of Handley to chec... (more)

An east bound load enters the yard at Hinton. The mixed bag lash up was typical of the C&O/Chessie operations in the area. The switch stand, yard shanty, and glass insulator telegraph poles lend ... (more)

It was an exciting day for the Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, PA. CSX has just delivered the locomotive a few hours, and the museum had just moved the locomotive into position next to a... (more)

The Chessie System livery was undoubtedly one of the most color rich, some would say gaudy paint schemes in modern American railroading. This photographer loved that the colors could shine in almo... (more)

The power for RS97 sits at Brooks Ave. in Gates, NY on the cold and snowy day of 2/4/1979. The caboose for RS97 is visible behind the pole in the distance. The head end could not couple up to the ... (more)