By the 1980s, Chessie had pulled all of C&O’s U25Bs out of service and stored them in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Here, parked beside the Clifton Forge Locomotive Shops, a string of nearly thirty rests in silence, amid the eastbound yard of export coal waiting to be moved to Newport News. Once upon a time this fleet had been Alleghany Mountain power, but now all are replaced by the more efficient SD35s and SD40s.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
