A Pilgrim's weekend, with CW's yard downtown full of boxcars and grain cars, the yard crew has tied down their unit here at the Pilgrim's Pride feed mill. Offering up a rare photo opt and a name f... (more)
A B&W seem fitting in retro spec to the B&O heritage engine that the SVRR is sporting around these days. Rumor has that the Alco RS-11 they are restoring to full operation will go back to its orig... (more)
The inner change at Pleasant Valley. Chesapeake & Western in the NS 7005 is preparing to pick up SVRR's 7 loaded soy cars. Shortly after that move SVRR in the B&O 6512 will pull back out on the m... (more)
As a child nothing could beat hearing the sound of an approaching train off in the distance and now that I'm grown, well that inner child just comes right back out! Only today it was two fold as I... (more)
After many years of abandonment, neglect and two devastating fires the old Chesapeake Western office & Depot was sold to a local business whom then invested in the building's future. Local firms w... (more)
SVRR #40 passing the old Pleasant Valley Depot (a former passenger stop for the B&O) on its way to interchange with the Chesapeake Western RR. This portion of the line was formerly B&O then Chesap... (more)
Me and ole #11 in a siding out on N&W's main north of Elkton waiting on clearance to head back to Harrisonburg with our morning loads in this late winter shot. This portion of double track is no l... (more)
When 662 was originally put on display in the museum, the manufacture's name plate was missing. Something that I had not known even existed on this engine. It has since been added and after carefu... (more)
First ever heritage unit on the Chesapeake Western. The Monongahela is on point leading 83 empty grain cars back to the NS Shenandoah yard. 8025 Monongahela unit came in town shortly before Christ... (more)
CW running classic Southern style with long hood forward on return trip from the new end of the line in Broadway. This line was once a B&O passenger line then turned Southern freight that connecte... (more)
The Harrisonburg yard was quite full today with these for units in the normal tie down spots while two more NS & two UP units brought up the rear near the old depot. But what caught my eye the mos... (more)
