Baltimore and Ohio, B&O GP40 3763 - Chessie GP9 6469, with a eastbound empty hopper train about ready to change crews at, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. April 3, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

For some reason Chessie System transferred some worn out geeps to the soon to disappear WM in the late 70s. An example sits with a whole group of dead locomotives taking Labor Day weekend off.

Transferred from the C&O to what was already almost a “paper railroad”. This unit sits among probably fifty units shut down for the holidays. I was there for only the second time last year. ... (more)

Nice details, extended stack, dynamic brakes, number boards. Can’t figure the horn placement though. Muffled on one side and likely distinctly unpleasant in the cab. Obviously this unit has b... (more)

These days Connelsville Yard is liking more like it did ages ago with storage cars!

The brains for the Connellsville Hump resided in this tower. From this vantage point operators could see both ends of the terminal and had their fingers on the whole operation. In 1966 this was an... (more)

Western Maryland power has just showed up at the B&O facility. After a quick servicing the power will head south with a cut of empty hoppers to one of three isolated coal tipple branchs in West Vi... (more)

Front end detail of a former Conrail SD80mac, still in Blue and White

Eastbound Stack train passes the CPL's at East Sodem

Passing the Amshack at West Connelsville

Westbound manifest passing under the B&O signals at West Sodem

Westbound at Sodem

HLGX 6822, a former NS unit on lease to CSX, leads an eastbound by the amshack.