Perhaps the most perfect train in the world, the CP Canadian strolls along the Bow River in Banff National Park. Next stop: Banff. Then on to Calgary and points east. An FP7-FP9 combo have a seven... (more)

Doing exactly what they were purchased to do, a pair of Chessie SD50’s brings a trainload of tidewater-bound coal through Hinton, West Virginia on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line. SD50’s gaine... (more)

A Wabash freight moved slowly through Albia, Iowa with two F7As in August of 1957. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer unknown.

There’s no lack of signage to identify this location, CW Cabin, at milepost 359 on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line near Hinton, West Virginia. The train is the New River Train, returning to Hunt... (more)

This photo is from my slide collection . This picture was taken by my late brother Mark Clark. It might look familiar to some of you because my brother was with Everett Young who had almost the ... (more)

There are those events to which we can look back and say "I'm glad I was there". This was such an event. "We don't need no stinking diesels!" Up the steepest mainline grade... (more)

Four B&O SD35s shove hard on the rear of an eastbound manifest at Amblersburg, WV on Sept. 13, 1975. Track work on the eastbound track has the train climbing Cranberry Grade on the westbound. In... (more)

A northbound rail train

This photo, taken by the late Hank Stuart, Jr., was taken at Tacoma, VA, on the Interstate's main line from Norton to Miller Yard, VA. The two colorful RS-3s on this "Hill Crew" are handling a rou... (more)

The L&N company photographer has arranged to stop train 70 on a June morning in 1957 at the big trestle at Independence. Up front today is an A-B-B-A set of F-units (F9/F7/F3/F7). Lead unit 924 is... (more)

L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)

The Newport News section of the GEORGE WASHINGTON hustles through the Morrison section of Newport News near the final destination.

B&O SD40-2 No. 7617 was leading a westbound empty hopper train out of Randolph Tunnel near Doe Gully, WV on Oct. 12, 1980.

An eastbound B&O manifest was grinding up Cranberry Grade, west of Terra Alta, WV on October 24, 1977 with three GP40-2s.

It is interesting how time changes one's perspective. I remember standing on the hill near Doe Gully, WV when this eastbound unit grain train approached, led by new SD40-2s No's. 7614 and 7615. ... (more)