The CSX merger took place two years earlier, but Chessie appears to still be running the show on this day in 1988 at the former C&O Fulton Yard.

By '93, this was a pretty rare lashup on CSX. Three 30Ms, an active tower, and two passenger cars make a great combination!

A pair of GP16s spend the weekend at Clifton Forge.

2696 leads a coke train out of the yard and onto the westbound main at J Tower.

The Mobile Division Operation Redblock engine leads an empty hopper train westbound on the Cumberland Sub.

The FM&P local passes a CPL signal near Bowest Jct.

A GP 16 leads a freight past the depot in Wilson. The GP 16s didn't last long in the CSX era, this was one of the few times I got to see one in action.

An afternoon MARC train makes a station stop at Point of Rocks. Until new MARC engines were ordered in 1993, almost anything could turn up on MARC trains. Borrowed CSX Geeps, former BN E units, ... (more)

Predecessor power wearing Chessie, Seaboard, and Family Lines paint occupy Hanover's former Western Maryland engine terminal.

I wish I could have seen this helper set of two SD45s in action, but a roster shot of the pair was a decent consolation prize.

Tower operator Melva Rowe converses with a crew in Gordonsville. At the time, this was one of the last towers (aka cabins) still open on the C&O.

Scenes like this were still fairly common along former B&O lines in the 80's. In 1988, CSX's Mountain Sub still had active towers in Grafton, Hardman, Rowlesburg, Altamont, Keyser, and Cumberland... (more)

Geeps in three different paint schemes idle away outside of the venerable shop in Rowlesburg.

Coming out of the morning mist, an empty hopper train leaves the Old Main Line and enters the Metropolitan Subdivision.

Strange, very strange. 8019 is working as a helper on the Q375, but instead of coupling up to the train it's simply following several car lengths behind. 375 made the grade without assistance, p... (more)