CSX is just days away and our subject works the yard with a SBD BQ23-7 and pigeons swarm in the background. Get the spray cans ready! Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Leveled Out. The Potomac Eagle's B&O F7 runs across the South Potomac and displays its lines during a Lerro Photo Charter.

In the Elements. The Potomac Eagle's B&O F7 crosses a trestle in some pretty heavy rain during a Lerro Photo Charter outing.

Baltimore & Ohio E7(A) 1421 and E7(A) 1424 with train 8 the eastbound SHENANDOAH, at Youngstown, Ohio on September 19, 1965. Photo by Dave McKay, from my collection.

CSX's Hazard Yard sits quiet and empty as we find four old cabooses waiting for their turn to be used down mine spurs. BO 903032 is a blast from the past, still sporting its Chessie paint scheme.

Three B&O RSD-7's sit in the Proviso Yard of the Chicago and Northwestern after bringing in a transfer freight.

Chessie B&O 4130-7225-8401, crossing the Youghiogheny River coming off the FM&P at S Connellsville, Pennsylvania. May 8, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

B&O Chessie 7617-8365 on the B&O Keystone sub as NS 3266-SRR 3252 coming off the connection from the P&WV AT, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. May 11, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff photo

Chessie B&O GP40-2's 4293- 4235. with a northbound coal train along the Monongahela River, on the Monongahela Railway at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. April 23, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Chessie B&O GP40 3779, leads a eastbound coal train into the B&O yard on the Keystone sub at Connellsville, Pennsylvania October 14, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Chessie B&O SD40-2 7617 leads a westbound ore train out of the tunnel on the B&O Keystone sub at, Falls Cut, Pennsylvania. May 9, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

B&O, Baltimore and Ohio GP35 3500- C&O GP40 4077- Chessie B&O GP40-2 4262, with a southbound train along the Ohio River, near New Martinsville, at Proctor, West Virginia. December 10, 1980. Jack D... (more)

Chessie, B&O 4331, leads an eastbound 396 on the ex-B&O Keystone sub at, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. February 6, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Chessie B&O GP40 4108, leading the Skinner is departing S. Connellsville, Pennsylvania. January 27, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Otto found this classic crummy at the Vincennes Indiana B&O yard in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.