With it's Seaboard Coast Line colors bleeding through, a renumbered GP40 leads a string of Chessie System EMDs on a lite engine move headed for nearby Barr Yard in Riverdale. Tom Golden photo.

A northbound Seaboard System freight headed up by a former Louisville & Nashville U23B and two U33Bs pauses for a late afternoon crew change at the station in Rocky Mount, NC. No, I wasn't riding ... (more)

“Bird’s Eye OBSS”
OBSS, with SS/SBD B36-7 5908 leading, is crossing the Patapsco River on the historic Thomas Viaduct on Track 1 of the B&O's Washington Subdivision (now CSX’s Ca... (more)

The West Virginian is about to pass under the Norfolk & Western’s Shenandoah Valley line as it negotiates the gentle s-curve on the Baltimore & Ohio main line at Shenandoah Junction, West... (more)

The West Virginian, flying white flags, rolls west through Hoods Mill, Maryland on a perfect September day.

On September 25, 1983, the Baltimore Chapter, NRHS, along with co-sponsors Railtours of America and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad operates an excursion from Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and Martinsb... (more)

Seaboard System FP7A, 118, former Clinchfield 200, and two F7B units exit Stretchers Neck Tunnel eastbound with one of the 1984 New River Trains. The tunnel is approximately a quarter mile west of... (more)

On August 10, 1986, the locomotive facility and shop area of Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard in Bedford Park, Illinois, hosts a large number of locomotives, mostly home-road and Seaboard... (more)

Thanks to Virginia’s long-standing caboose law, the northbound Orange Blossom Special still has a rear end crew in this October, 1987 view. The view is from Quantico, Virginia, looking ac... (more)

Thanks to a Virginia law, one of the hottest freight trains to travel through Philadelphia still had a caboose in 1987. The end of the southbound Orange Blossom Special rolls along the Schu... (more)

A trio of SD-50's bring a loaded coal train from Ravenna off the EK to head south towards Corbin.

A former L&N SD-40 leading a southbound from Cincinnati to Louisville.

On September 25, 1983, an excursion from Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg via the B&O Old Main Line was scheduled to take place. I believe that the trip was sponsored by the Baltimore Ch... (more)

A beautiful piece of railroad history sits just beside the old McCormick Depot and current CSX McCormick subdivision tracks. Many of these are scattered throughout the South in museums and displa... (more)