Another one bites the dust... Western Maryland BL2 82 passes a former mine operation that is slowly being scrapped a few miles west of Elkins. Note the twisted conveyors on the ground at ri... (more)
The second year I returned to Bayard, all of the locomotives were gone. In their place were three hopper cars from the three systems that would make up the Chessie System in 1977. C&O B&O WM. othe... (more)
In the very last light of the day 81W returns to Williamson with its loads led by a C39-8 on borrowed time. To the far right is the 56Z from photo id: 162353; now tied town awaiting a crew to cont... (more)
A BNSF 70mac brings a string of empties into the load-out at Eagle Butte Mine, Wyoming. Taken on a tour of the mine.
Grafton, West Virginia, engine servicing tracks in the days before the downgrading of the B&O mainline.
Brakeshoe smoke! (Fr. Dale Peterka photographing the action by the station)
A coal drag with a nice duo of SCL and Chessie units occupies the yard at Keyser. For many years, Keyser was a large terminal on the B&O's West End - the area to the left of the train was once pa... (more)
Empty U839 on CSX, returning to the Powder River.
