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  1. Deshler and the D70

    Deshler and the D70

    A southbound at South Deshler. With a day of beautiful light I decided try my hand as to shoot two cameras. With a long lensed D90 on a monopod I could bracket a shot with the D90, let it rest in the cormer of my arm and get a wide angle set off with the D70.
  2. Eastbound at Deshler

    Eastbound at Deshler

    An eastbound passing through Deshler Ohio on the ex-B&O mainline to Chicago.
  3. I have seen her before...

    I have seen her before...

    C&O 2-6-6-6 at the B&O museum in 1988. I have seen this engine at Roanoke, here and after it was moved indoors...
  4. What a long, strange trip it's been....

    What a long, strange trip it's been....

    2-6-6-6 # 1604 sitting in the car shop building at the B&O museum at Baltimore. I saw this engine at Roanoke, VA in 1981. A few years later, a massive flood hit the museum and actually moved this beast several feet to the side! It's nice to see it finally under cover but it's impossible to...
  5. bridges at Parkersburg WV

    bridges at Parkersburg WV

    This bridge crosses the Hughes river right where it enters the Ohio river.
  6. bridges at Parkersburg WV

    bridges at Parkersburg WV

    The highway bridge is in the foreground and the CSX (ex B&O) bridge is in the background. I think the big bridge upriver in the background is a freeway bridge.
  7. B&O 4057 EAST

    B&O 4057 EAST

    B&O 4057 with CSX train 934 exits the Canadian side of the 1909 built Detroit River Tunnel. The tunnel was built by the Michigan Central Railroad and it's subsequent owners have been the NYC, PC, CR, CN, CP and now an investment consortium. CP runs it's Montreal/Toronto to Chicago trains via...
  8. B&O color position signals, Deshler, Ohio

    B&O color position signals, Deshler, Ohio

    CSX 7608 and 173 begin their swing north and west around the southwest corner of the junction at Deshler as B&O color position signals stand guard.
  9. B&O E-9 #1455, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    B&O E-9 #1455, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    Baltimore & Ohio E-9 #1455 and Chesapeake & Ohio E-8 #4012 at Grand Central Station, Chicago, Illinois, February 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler Unfortunately, by the time I began photographing trains, Grand Central Station was in its final days. Most of the trains terminating there...
  10. B&O E-7 #1416, Chicago, IL, April 20, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    B&O E-7 #1416, Chicago, IL, April 20, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    Baltimore & Ohio E-7 #1416, Pullman Junction, Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler I started out to explain the screened vent behind the cab door, which appears on all (original) E-7 A-units. I thought it was the intake for the air compressor, so I got out my copy of...
  11. CSX eastbound

    CSX eastbound

    CSX eastbound at Walkerton, IN on 9/29/07.
  12. Walkerton, IN Tower

    Walkerton, IN Tower

    An old late 1800s early 1900s brick tower still in decent shape.
  13. B&O GP40 - CSX SD35 - and?

    B&O GP40 - CSX SD35 - and?

    It's December 1988 along the IHB near Bellwood, IL.
  14. TOFC

    TOFC

    An old B&O piggyback trailer being used for storage beside the old C&O yard office in St. Albans, WV. Shortly after this was taken, dirtbags spray painted over the logo.
  15. CSXT'S S&NA North Sub

    CSXT'S S&NA North Sub

    CSXT ( Former Chessie System B&O ) GP40 6854 sitting at Cullman, Al. awaiting its next assignment on CSXT local freight train M788
  16. CSXT'S W&A Sub

    CSXT'S W&A Sub

    CSXT ( Former Chessie System B&O ) GP40 6629 sitting at Cartersville, Ga. awaiting its next assignment
  17. B&O 470968 XM

    B&O 470968 XM

    Built in 12/57, this 40ft B&O 470968 XM boxcar is seen in the Penn Central yard in Windsor Ontario May 1972.
  18. Westbound

    Westbound

    Two GP40-2s drag west at Hamilton.
  19. B&O 294798 Stranded

    B&O 294798 Stranded

    Outside the P&G plant, St. Bernard, Ohio.
  20. Gone but not Forgotten

    Gone but not Forgotten

    While the 4343 remains in service as CSXT 6242, the office this was taken from is no more than a foundation and the forground tracks and yard they lead to are all gone.


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