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 “stuffâ€... (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 h... (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 ... (more)
The turntable is a degree or two from indexing as one of the great faces in American railroading fills the frame. Note the little fender below the pilot. I wonder why they added it.
Hard to think of them as old but here is an old unit getting ready to drop his hump slug to go pick up an RP15BDM to be positioned for photographs.
Originally CRIP >CNW >RRC Unit is good to see again in this tiny yard, in a tiny town in rural Buckeye land. A bucolic remnant of B&O and DT&I.
Just in from running the passenger this rarity is headed to the barn.
