The engineer on this eastbound train is reaching for his orders from the operator at CW Cabin at the west end of Hinton.

An eastbound train of export coal is departing Avis yard at Hinton, West Virginia, and will soon begin its assault on the grades to Clifton Forge, Virginia.

Several days before Christmas, Santa pays a visit to the South Branch.

Now departing on Track 1... There's one of these saved in Baltimore. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S

On "Capitol Limited"; "Afternoon Congressional" to left

B&O #52 backs to it's train in the Communipaw terminal trackage. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S. I believe that this unit was originally an EMC EA built in 1937 but appears here as an EMC E6... (more)

Numerous GP9s and GP30s stored around the roundhouse at Elkins, West Virginia, during a coal strike in May of 1981.

It takes four units on the head and three on the rear of these loaded coal hoppers to ease them down the steep grade of the Sewell Valley Subdivision. This is the rear end and photo 2 of 2. (Pho... (more)

National Limited just before it lost the mail contract and started terminating at Parkersburg, WV.

Washigton to Pittsburgh manifest.

Merchandise freights were scarce on this mainline to Parkersburg. In the late sixties the Great B&O century was coming to an end. Soon the first generation locos would disappear and the B&O C&O, W... (more)

How lucky I was to photogrqph this train with four GP30s.

B&O GP40-2 4427 leads a "Grafton Railroad Heritage Special" from Grafton, WV to Connellsville, PA on the FM&P Subdivision at Morgantown, WV on September 13, 1986.

Looking up at the sizable B&O 6604 in Petersburg, WV