FORD VS. ....ok there were no GM products to be had this morning, so it'll have to be Ford vs. GE. Three units lead a 14,000 ton coal drag to the siding at Gastonia.

An eastbound Amtrak meets a Geep running light on the old C&O viaduct in downtown in the late evening. Water towers and chimneys of old factories dot the skyline and are reflected in the canal.

A Carl Franz photo special passes the rarely used upper water tank (a rusty old boiler) approaching Bald Knob.

Walter's recent switchback shot made me think of this different angle. One can easily see how much elevation these things help a ... (more)

The long viaduct along the face of Richmond allowed the C&O to close a troublesome tunnel underneath the city. Apparently, in an attempt to reopen this tunnel in the 1920s, a collapse trapped an ... (more)

A coal train crosses a break in the flood wall which lets traffic into downtown Richmond.

Crossing the spectacular former ACL-RF&P viaduct over the James river southbound.

Arriving downtown Richmond, motorists pass through the flood wall. The large gate beneath the locos can slide across the road to fill the hole in the wall and protect the city from the James River... (more)

Close clearance hardly begins to describe downtown Richmond. A northbound empty hopper train navigates past a warehouse and over the balcony of the Bottom's Up Bar. Probably not the most enjoyab... (more)

A DC unit leads the typical pair of AC's on a coal train passing NS's drawbridge over the now-unused Kannawha Canal.

More Richmond Bridges…Skyscrapers now overlook the site of the Tredegar Iron Works, and the James River is full of abandoned structures. The pillars along the right side of the photo once held ... (more)

Dueling Bridges: Richmond Style (Part II)… The lead AC44 is framed by NS’s 1930-built bascule style drawbridge over the old Kannawha Canal. The coal train is headed to Newport News while the ... (more)

Dueling Bridges: Richmond Style… U160 heads east along the former C&O viaduct. In the foreground (and quite badly tagged with graffiti) is NS’s former Southern bridge across the James River. ... (more)

A pair of older YN2 EMD’s look sharp at the head of this 47 car northbound.

Abandoned trackage set in the cobblestone streets of industrial south Richmond. Not sure how this turnout worked because I saw no mechanism, but it was an odd sight to see in the middle of the st... (more)