Interior of beautifully restored Peoria and Eastern Caboose performs as Caboose/mascot/shoving platform/customer relations car on Indiana Boxcar’s Vermillion Valley Railroad. Despite some memorab... (more)

Beautifully restored Peoria and Eastern Caboose performs as Caboose/mascot/shoving platform/customer relations car on Indiana Boxcar’s Vermillion Valley Railroad.

Looking great in the one ray of sunshine the came out this nasty day, a former EMCO, ex LTVX Cab unit shares the spotlight with a beautifully restored Peoria and Eastern Caboose.

Northbound grain train waiting to depart this tiny town that was once an important junction. Probably my favorite SD40 configuration, a “basic” and a “cobra”.

An undergrad at MP, graduate of UP, and locomotive emeritus in a great paint scheme, this unit has finished switching for a good part of the day and is heading for home rails and return to Brewste... (more)

Originally UP, this unit has found a good home where they love this model, and idles beside the gigantic quarry at the end of this line.

Rare butthead repaint with a lucky number, maybe. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

An empty unit train departs westbound on the Clinch Valley Subdivision headed for the coalfields, probably Tom’s Creek which is about all that’s left.

Passing a small pond.

Looking huge and powerful a newly rebuilt unit storms thru our small town with a small train as the M of W equipment cowers on the siding.

Originally BN ex BNSF unit is resting awaiting assignment to one of the locals that originate here.

A westbound mixed freight departs the big yard. As of today a these units are stored due to curtailed service, also known as PSR.

Wow, what a detail parts manufacturers dream. That’s what the modeler in me says. Just the kind of unit I like, the railfan says. The more antennas, air conditions, PTC and oddball “stuff” the ... (more)

Local V19 is getting it’s train together for the day. Soon they will go across town to switch some industries on a remnant of the old Virginia & Southwestern. I’m surprised 1644 apparently has n... (more)

I’m always a sucker for a pretty face but for this one, not so much. Roundhouse scuttlebutt was that these were embargoed due to being built with no collision protection in the front. Present st... (more)