The Chessie era ended four years earlier, but there are still plenty of vestiges of the past in this scene at Rowlesburg.
The CSX merger took place two years earlier, but Chessie appears to still be running the show on this day in 1988 at the former C&O Fulton Yard.
By '93, this was a pretty rare lashup on CSX. Three 30Ms, an active tower, and two passenger cars make a great combination!
A pair of GP16s spend the weekend at Clifton Forge.
An eastbound drag approaches the station in White Sulphur Springs.
2696 leads a coke train out of the yard and onto the westbound main at J Tower.
The FM&P local passes a CPL signal near Bowest Jct.
It's just another day in Suburbia as 118 pulls into Kensington with an afternoon commuter train on MARC's Brunswick line.
A GP 16 leads a freight past the depot in Wilson. The GP 16s didn't last long in the CSX era, this was one of the few times I got to see one in action.
An afternoon MARC train makes a station stop at Point of Rocks. Until new MARC engines were ordered in 1993, almost anything could turn up on MARC trains. Borrowed CSX Geeps, former BN E units, ... (more)
Predecessor power wearing Chessie, Seaboard, and Family Lines paint occupy Hanover's former Western Maryland engine terminal.
I wish I could have seen this helper set of two SD45s in action, but a roster shot of the pair was a decent consolation prize.
Tower operator Melva Rowe converses with a crew in Gordonsville. At the time, this was one of the last towers (aka cabins) still open on the C&O.
By 1991, many of the freights on the RF&P were only stopping at Pot Yard to add or remove a cab signal equipped unit and change crews. A few would still tie up in the old yard, such as this south... (more)
Coming out of the morning mist, an empty hopper train leaves the Old Main Line and enters the Metropolitan Subdivision.
