Gloriously unrebuilt and fully equipped with that remarkable “ashcan” light this beauty idles in the sun. There must be a story behind that paint job.

Back when the mills and foundries and factories still created a haze this cab hop is roaring north. I only got one shot. Must have been the end of a roll. Remember those?

Transferred from the C&O to what was already almost a “paper railroad”. This unit sits among probably fifty units shut down for the holidays. I was there for only the second time last year. ... (more)

Nothing on the slide. From my collection. Cumberland, MD maybe?

My MP pal, who undertook to offer a welcome to a young Air Force guy by showing me around the oddball (on MP) GE behind him. In the few weeks I was there I got a couple of cab rides around the te... (more)

They had some stick-on lettering problems.

Across town the Rock Island was dying.

Interim scheme

There was a little break in the clouds for once on this trip. After a week I decided that the only way to railfan New England is to live there and have no other commitments other than waiting fo... (more)

On a short layover I got some time to head back to the Flats for a visit to favorite old ramshackle operation. And sure enough a grizzled old veteran was idling aware adorned with battle scars, b... (more)

Idling for a long time, oil builds up in cylinders etc., then with a mighty roar a trio of GEs head out on a mine run. Oh, the humanity. God, I STILL love the smell of diesel smoke in the mornin... (more)

Corbin maybe. Hope you labeled your slides. I missed this one.

Passing the athletic fields of venerable Emory & Henry College this intermodal is in beautiful sunshine, a rare commodity around here of late. This the most due East-west spot on the line around ... (more)

Ready to assault NS’s Starkey Hill alone with 60 some odd coal loads this visitor looks up to the task. It was quite a chase. Apparently the test was successful.

Hustling, and I mean hustling west, the second job of the days is headed to the huge kaolin plant at the end of the line, passing the only non-industrial building for miles, a thriving little chur... (more)