Purr-fect Transportation Thirty-nine years later, Chessie can still be found sleeping on her pillow. This pop art style of logo was the brainchild of Franklyn Carr in 1972 by combinin... (more)
The 614 pulls the "Chessie Safety Express" on a warm, May 31, 1981.
RS-97 is stopped at the Marble Road grade crossing waiting for the O.K. to proceed across the diamond at Machias Jct.
Early days of Chessie System on the B&O mainline
The last Chessie train on the Rochester Sub is passing thru Bird Swamp with 4 Chessie Cats. The next day this line would be the Rochester & Southern.
For a while it was not uncommon to find a Chessie System locomotive near where MACE tower once stood or where the old B&O freight house once stood.
One of five Chessie SD20-2's that had been rebuilt from a SD35 heads north back to Queensgate Yard as it travels above Covington Kentucky.
It's late afternoon, and Chessie 614 has just pulled past the ex-B&O passenger station after one of its first excursions. After this shot, it was the drive home, but what a memory this was.
Late on the frigid night of January 18, 1985 a trio of Chessie SD35 helpers wait at Burnsville, WV for the next call to shove a load toward Grafton on the Cowen Subdivision of the Monongah Divisio... (more)
SR-94 holds the main as it waits for a meet with RS-97. After the meet, the train started down the hill and the last several cars and caboose derailed and overturned at Broughton Road in Silver S... (more)
Having passed thru Bird Swamp, SR-94 rolls thru rolling farmland.
RS-97 crosses the diamond with the Buffalo Line.
RS-97 with Chessie 4101 in the lead climbs the grade at Rock Glen.
The power off SR-94 appears to have encountered some snowy conditions on the trip North. The 4198 will lead the next RS-97 South to Salamanca.
