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.…
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.
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…
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…
Norfolk Southern train 27A was led by NS ES44AC 8104 (the Lehigh Valley Railroad heritage unit) today east on the B-Line. When I arrived I saw the clear signal at the Woods control for an eastbound on the B-Line. Before…
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…
This morning I got a nice surprise seeing Norfolk Southern ballast train 93X with NS AC44C6M 4727 running long hood forward. The train was heading eastbound and stopped short of Happy Creek Rd between Woods and Cody on the NS B-Line.…
Today, Norfolk Southern train 274 with a mixed freight consist was led west by NS ES-44AC 8147, ES-44AC 8114 (the original Norfolk & Southern heritage unit), ES-44DC 7679 and D9-44CW 9749. The scene is in Belle Meade, Virginia located between…
Yesterday, I had hoped to catch the Monongahela Railway heritage unit crossing the Shenandoah River but the train was making good time coming down from Pennsylvania and I realized I wouldn’t be able to get in position in time. Instead,…
Sometimes it seems like weeks can go by with nothing very interesting to see, but then heritage units come by two days in a row. That was the case this weekend where I caught the Monongahela Railway heritage unit leading…
