Eastbound coal train on the former C&O.

A westbound train of empty hoppers is waiting to leave Clifton Forge, Virginia. The decaying remains of the large shop complex looms in the background.

Shaped like an S-Curve, the crew of CSX #5306 is preparing to pull a very long line of empty coal cars back up to West Virginia.

Q302 sits in the yard waiting to go east. 302 would still be in the yard by morning.

The deadheading New River excursion train equipment, P91927, bears to the left at JD Cabin at Clifton Forge and onto leased Buckingham Branch RR territory en route to Orange, VA, and interchange w... (more)

A celebrity graces the Clifton Forge Yard, as the famous runaway unit leaves town with a MOW train bound for Gladstone, VA. The Smith Creek Yard is visible behind the train, home of the C&O Histo... (more)

Built July 1949 for the C&O " Chesapeake District " this series of steel cabooses were built to handle the increase of traffic after WWII. There were 100 of these built (90200-90299) with an addit... (more)

A relic from the past is still hanging from the ceiling of the abandoned steam locomotive shops at Clifton Forge.

Miscellaneous bolt torque values posted above the service bays of the abandoned diesel shop at Clifton Forge

Part of the old Clifton Forge steam locomotive shop was converted to service diesel locomotives in the 1950s. Here is a view of one of the bays.

60 years ago, steam locomotives had their wheels changed in this room. New tires were fire heated and applied to the wheels on the open floor next to the wheel pits.

A rare tour of the abandoned C&O locomotive shops at Clifton Forge was conducted by the C&O Historical Society. This turntable once spun the huge C&O Class H8 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives.

A freshly repainted Ex-Conrail locomotive and an HLCX SD40-2 both catch a breather in the last rays of a crystal clear Friday afternoon.

CSXT 706 Seen here west of Clifton Forge. Now the numbers 706 do not belong to this unt anymore, now it is seen on a new CSX ES44AC.