Train Tuesdays My dad has been trying to reduce the clutter around his house so has been passing along some old train books and such to me. One of the books he recently gave me is Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company, 150 Years, 1834-1984: A Brief Pictorial History by William E. Griffin, Jr. Published in [...]
Train Tuesdays I highly recommend this relatively new children’s book entitled Chugga Chugga Choo Choo. It’s about a train delivering toys to the city and the setting is a wooden railway set up in a little boy’s room. The book is wonderfully illustrated and adult railfans will surely enjoy the ample opportunities to make train [...]
Train Tuesdays A light rain made this Winchester and Western locomotive shine today. When I’m up around Falling Waters, WV, the Inwood – Hagerstown train can often be seen around lunchtime heading south through the Eastern Panhandle returning from Hagerstown. This photo was taken at the Berkeley Station Road crossing. Tweet
Train Tuesdays Some great reading is Kipp Teague’s website with the story, complete with sound clips and videos, of Norfolk and Western Class J #611′s last run back to Roanoke after Norfolk Southern ended their previous steam operations program in 1994: When I think back on seeing and hearing the 611 under steam for what [...]
Train Tuesdays Why do thousands of people want the 611 to be restored to special excursion service? Why do so many people, myself included, love the locomotive? I think this video does the best job I’ve seen of explaining the phenomenon. This was produced by Norfolk Southern after the locomotive was restored the first time [...]