Alco/Westinghouse boxcab EL3A #105 resting at Roanoke, VA in this Feb. 1957 scene. Bob Drake photo, photo collection of Tom Sink.
VGN westbound near McCoy, Feb 1957. Bob Drake photo, photo collection of Tom Sink.
N&W 449 resting in Roanoke, July 1954. Bob Drake photo, Tom Sink Collection.
Virginian #215 leading eastbound train #4 at Victoria, VA || Nov 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.
Southbound C&O freight at Alexandria, VA || July 1957 Photo by Bob Drake, Tom Sink Collection
An especially long 20 car George Washington needed four E8s instead of the usual three
N&W Eastbound train #4 behind #604 at Lynchburg, VA in Jaunary 1957. Photo by Bob Drake from the Tom Sink Collection
Before this line was abandoned in favor of parallel ACL main
Nice to still find E6s in 1968!
Looking down from SAL overpass
Station at North Garden was still manned but was torn down sometime in 1968/69
Cresting the grade with mail and express train
Running over former ACL between Collier and Chesterfield with four former SAL units
The Tidewater section of the eastbound Sportsman makes the station stop at Gordonsville. The station was unique, sitting in the middle of a wye.
Ex Virginian H Liners dominate this 4 unit FM lashup at Roanoke, VA.
