Month: September 2024

CSX Mixed Freight Passes Duffields, WV

A CSX freight train passes a covered station platform in Duffields, West Virginia

This gloomy afternoon, I visited an old friend in West Virginia and he took me around to a few train watching spots. Here’s a westbound CSX train passing the MARC rail station at Duffields, West Virginia on the Cumberland Subdivision.…

MoW Ballast Cleaning Train

This evening I noticed a Norfolk Southern Maintenance of Way ballast cleaning train tied down in the siding at Linden on the NS B-Line. Here are a couple photos.

NS Train 289 Passing Woods

Norfolk Southern train 289 is seen today passing by the control point named Woods in Front Royal, Virginia as the train heads east on the NS B-Line. NS often names their control points after people and I believe that was…

An Hour in Ashland, Virginia

On Saturday, my oldest daughter rode her team bus to a cross country meet outside of Richmond, Virginia.  My youngest daughter and I drove down to the meet to watch and stopped for dinner in Ashland around 5:00p.  The weather…

NS Train 27A Crossing the Potomac River

A Norfolk Southern train crosses a bridge over the Potomac River

Norfolk Southern train 27A is seen crossing the Potomac River from Maryland into Shepherdstown, West Virginia from the scenic Rumsey Monument vantage point. This is on the ex-N&W Shenandoah Valley Line. Of note, there are a couple special Hub Group…