On a hazy summer morning, RF&P Train No. 276 gets underway from Acca Yard for its run to Potomac Yard. When their days in passenger service had ended, the RF&P used its E8 diesels in freight servi... (more)

Rumbling through Lynchburg in the pouring rain.

The hostler is in charge of a set of SCL GP40's working thru the diesel shop at Hermitage Yard in Richmond, Va. GP40 #1560 was the only SCL GP40 in the "split image" paint scheme that received th... (more)

C&O's Eastbound George Washington just east of Clifton Forge along the Jackson River in May 1961.

E8 RF&P 1013 has just been painted and rolled out in the new simplified paint scheme.

N&W Y6a 2157 pushes a coal drag headed by five EMD GP9 units. This was my final shot of Norfolk and Western steam in regular service.

Five N&W GP9 units pass under the " photographers bridge " with an eastbound coal drag.

N&W Y6a 2157 hustles upgrade at Blue Ridge on a light engine move.

N&W Y6a 1258 and class A 1221 have crested the Blue Ridge grade with eastbound coal and are rolling downgrade at Villamont in the morning.

We paid a brief visit to the Virginian Railway engine terminal below Mill Mountain after spending the day on the N&W.

Norfolk and Western freight power is well represented at Shaffers Crossing. Class A 1221 faces Y6b 2173 while EMD GP9 721 sits nearby.

Leased RF&P E8 1014 drifts down the Blue Ridge grade with tr. 25, POWHATAN ARROW. The class J 4-8-4s were mostly in standby or freight service after N&W President Stuart Saunders decided to hurry ... (more)

Class A 1210 passes between position light signals with a westbound freight downgrade to Roanoke.

Class A 1221 is steaming nicely as it passes beneath the bridge at Blue Ridge with a westbound empty hopper train.

Famous class A 1218 drifts westbound down the Blue Ridge grade with a merchandise train that will soon be in Roanoke.