Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

Uncoupled B-unit is hard to catch. This one has special significance. A former Clinchfield unit, one of the last 4 on that road and something of a celebrity for having been part of the many excu... (more)

Image this string going out on the daily local for real in 2021. This former MILW f-unit is masquerading as a Chesapeake & Ohio unit while its companion is somewhat more authentic (where did they... (more)

Returning from their remote interchange with the A & O the day’s freight will stop briefly stop then proceed toward Elkins to switch a salt warehouse and a quarry. A little phonied up but 70-ye... (more)

Former Western Maryland 303 poses in an A-B-A configuration with EMD products during August 2003 at Belington. The unit had long since been converted to a cab-car for service on the Long Island Ra... (more)

WVC 67 poses in a down to earth and soulful setting, which fits her quite well. Former Clinchfield unit.

For the first time, all five of the West Virginia Central RR's locomotives have been MU'd together for freight service. The BL2 - FP7A - FP7B - GP9 - FP7A consist is in the 8th notch as the locomo... (more)

Ready to head to Tygart Junction after dropping the passenger cars.

We will never get this thing done! When I first arrived in Belington and saw this coach I was thinking to myself "What in the world are we getting into". It was the day before the historic ... (more)

This 1950 Baltimore and Ohio E-unit looks rather rough in its faded US DOT paint awaiting restoration as part of the WV RR Museum collection.

A pair of classic diesels couple to a passenger consist and prepare to move it to the passenger terminal in the West Virginia Central's Belington Yard. The lead is FP7 #67 and the trailer is for... (more)

West Virginia Central operated a Photographer's Special from Elkins to Tygart Jct., WV for the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association. Here the train rolls along the Tygart River... (more)

The view from the cab of WVC 67 during the September photo charter. Here is what it looked like from the cab as Photo id. 211496 was taken.

Catching some of the last rays of sun, WM 67 and its train round the corner around the river on one last run-by here.

WVC Trainmaster Matt Reese brings #67 and its train through a sweeping curve north of the yard in Belington during a photo run-by. more)