Logo
 
 
12/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:John C Durant
Dates:1/1/1972 - 12/31/1986
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
B&O/Chessie 4141 #681
Title:  B&O/Chessie 4141 #681
Description:  CNJ/RDG/B&O pool train #681 departs Spring Street westbound on the CNJ. Conrail was a little more than 2 years away.
Photo Date:  9/12/1973  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 12:29:18 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4141(GP40-2) BO 4005(GP40)
Views:  1119   Comments: 0
B&O 7499 CI-97
Title:  B&O 7499 CI-97
Description:  B&O CI-97 hammers through Keyser, W.Va. passing the still active (in 1973) yard and tower.
Photo Date:  11/18/1973  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 3:45:08 PM
Location:  Keyser, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 7499(SD40) BO 4810(GP38) BO 6473(GP9)
Views:  2048   Comments: 1
B&O 9911
Title:  B&O 9911
Description:  B&O RDC-1 9911 lays over at Martinsburg, W.Va.
Photo Date:  11/19/1973  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 9:27:50 AM
Location:  Martinsburg, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9911(RDC1)
Views:  2162   Comments: 1
B&O 6614
Title:  B&O 6614
Description:  B&O GP9 6614 looks ratty sitting out side the Cumberland shops waiting its turn in the paint booth for a Chessie paint job.
Photo Date:  3/23/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 8:39:33 AM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6614(GP9)
Views:  1391   Comments: 1
B&O 3802
Title:  B&O 3802
Description:  B&O 3802 & 3815 shove hard against the rear of a grain empty...
Photo Date:  8/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 8:23:06 AM
Location:  Hyndman, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3802(GP38) BO 3815(GP38)
Views:  1376   Comments: 0
B&O 4019
Title:  B&O 4019
Description:  Westbound grain empties start up Sand Patch at Hyndman behind two GP40's
Photo Date:  8/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 8:11:07 AM
Location:  Hyndman, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4019(GP40) BO 3752(GP40)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
B&O 4036
Title:  B&O 4036
Description:  B&O 4036 is the lead unit on a lite engine move from Johnstown..
Photo Date:  8/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 5:46:02 AM
Location:  Somerset, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4036(GP40) BO 4004(GP40) BO 3771(GP40)
Views:  779   Comments: 0
B&O 7406
Title:  B&O 7406
Description:  B&O SD35 7406 works the Staten Island interchange at Cranford Jct
Photo Date:  3/7/1975  Upload Date: 4/17/2007 6:46:38 AM
Location:  Cranford, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 7406(SD35)
Views:  1142   Comments: 0
B&O 3547
Title:  B&O 3547
Description:  WJ-1 heads out of Connellsville, PA and up the connecting ramp with the N&W, ex P&WV.
Photo Date:  10/23/1977  Upload Date: 6/1/2006 9:15:14 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3547(GP35) BO 4119(GP40-2) NW 3487(GP9)
Views:  1738   Comments: 3
A Towerman's View
Title:  A Towerman's View
Description:  The "EXCEE" operators view of #681 as it leaves Cranford Jct after making the Staten Island RR pick-up
Photo Date:  7/28/1978  Upload Date: 4/24/2006 3:07:26 PM
Location:  Cranford, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4233(GP40-2) BO 4242(GP40-2)
Views:  1110   Comments: 1
B&O 6528
Title:  B&O 6528
Description:  The engineer on #88 has 6528 screaming as the train comes off the Susquehanna River Bridge at West Aiken, MD
Photo Date:  8/5/1978  Upload Date: 4/23/2006 5:43:02 PM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6528(GP9) CO 4166(GP40-2)
Views:  746   Comments: 1
B&O 9559
Title:  B&O 9559
Description:  B&O 9559 and its train works back to Staten Island with the days interchange from Cranford Jct.
Photo Date:  9/26/1978  Upload Date: 4/30/2006 5:51:20 PM
Location:  Roselle, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9559(NW2)
Views:  1801   Comments: 1
B&O 6907
Title:  B&O 6907
Description:  #396 departs Cumberland (Mexico Farms) for points east behing B&O 6907 and a WM (Chessie). Note the Monon Covered Hopper 2nd out.
Photo Date:  3/25/1979  Upload Date: 4/24/2006 3:19:13 PM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6907(GP30) WM 6412(GP9)
Views:  1340   Comments: 0
Chessie (B&O) 6543
Title:  Chessie (B&O) 6543
Description:  CU-97 approaches "HO" tower behind two GP9's
Photo Date:  3/25/1979  Upload Date: 4/24/2006 3:32:19 PM
Location:  Hancock, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6543(GP9) BO 6480(GP9)
Views:  996   Comments: 2
C&O/Chessie 4282
Title:  C&O/Chessie 4282
Description:  Two C&O units power a lite engine move on the former B&O at Halethorpe, MD. Halethorpe was the location of the B&O Fair of the Iron horse in 1927.
Photo Date:  4/21/1979  Upload Date: 2/13/2007 12:26:19 PM
Location:  Halethorpe, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 4282(GP40-2) CO 4078(GP40)
Views:  711   Comments: 0
B&O 9407
Title:  B&O 9407
Description:  The Staten Island Job heads home after a trip to the Conrail (exCNJ) interchange at Cranford. Chessie/ eB&O was still forwarding a daily pair of trains via the old Royal Blue Route. But the end was near, the 80's would see Chessie Merged into CSX and the Staten Island sold to the NYS&W.
Photo Date:  8/23/1979  Upload Date: 9/15/2006 3:42:44 PM
Location:  Bayway, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9407(SW900)
Views:  1151   Comments: 0
WM 7173
Title:  WM 7173
Description:  A pair of Western Maryland F7's power a Passenger Extra around the sweeping curve west of Mt.Airy, MD on the Old Main Line
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 5/10/2006 1:11:36 PM
Location:  Bartholows, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 7173(F7A)
Views:  1218   Comments: 5
WM 4353 #397
Title:  WM 4353 #397
Description:  Western Maryland 4353 leads #397 westbound toward Hyndman and Sand Patch Grade.
Photo Date:  10/3/1980  Upload Date: 4/26/2007 11:55:17 AM
Location:  Mount Savage Junctio, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 4353(GP40-2) CO 4383(GP40-2) BO 6462(GP9)
Views:  902   Comments: 0
B&O 4142
Title:  B&O 4142
Description:  An eastbound coal train passes MP177 approaching Virginia Lane
Photo Date:  10/4/1980  Upload Date: 7/5/2007 6:46:32 PM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4142(GP40-2) BO 3732(GP40) BO 6948(GP30)
Views:  712   Comments: 0
B&O/Chessie 4210
Title:  B&O/Chessie 4210
Description:  Extra 4210 east drops downgrade at Manila, Pa. A cut of X rated hoppers head out....
Photo Date:  10/8/1980  Upload Date: 3/9/2007 4:39:57 PM
Location:  Manila, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4210(GP40-2) BO 3806(GP38)
Views:  635   Comments: 1
B&O 7413
Title:  B&O 7413
Description:  SD35 7413 heads an eight unit lash-up of lite engines bound for Grafton, WV which includes one Sd35, one GP9, one GP30 and five GP40's
Photo Date:  10/8/1980  Upload Date: 7/7/2006 7:33:37 PM
Location:  Piedmont, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 7413(SD35) BO 6603(GP9) BO 6900(GP30) BO 4105(GP40-2) BO 3750(GP40) BO 4121(GP40-2) BO 3776(GP40) BO 3771(GP40)
Views:  2302   Comments: 1
Chessie (WM) 4363
Title:  Chessie (WM) 4363
Description:  An eastbound grain train powered by two GP40-2's approaches the junction with the abandonned Patterson Creek Cut-Off. The cut-off ran from Patterson Creek, W.Va. to McKenzie, MD and allowed trains to by-pass Cumberland.
Photo Date:  10/8/1980  Upload Date: 5/11/2006 9:58:29 PM
Location:  Patterson Creek, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 4363(GP40-2) BO 4236(GP40-2)
Views:  973   Comments: 2
B&O/Chessie 4109
Title:  B&O/Chessie 4109
Description:  Northeast 98 with two Gp40-2's heads up the "Pike" to Pittsburgh on a damp Oct. afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/26/1980  Upload Date: 6/4/2006 10:10:57 PM
Location:  Elm Grove, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4109(GP40-2) BO 4205(GP40-2)
Views:  1426   Comments: 2
Northeast 98 Eng 4109
Title:  Northeast 98 Eng 4109
Description:  As Wheeling Steel went, so goes the B&O. NE-98 one of the last trains operating between Wheeling and Pittsburgh moves slowly along W.Va. RT-2 as it leaves Benwood for the W&P Sub.
Photo Date:  10/26/1980  Upload Date: 6/26/2006 11:02:39 AM
Location:  Benwood, WV
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4109(GP40-2) BO 4205(GP40-2)
Views:  1161   Comments: 1
Chessie (B&O) 4292
Title:  Chessie (B&O) 4292
Description:  An eastbound grain extra holds at the Narrows before pulling east.
Photo Date:  4/4/1981  Upload Date: 8/10/2007 11:29:27 AM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John C Dvrant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4292(GP40-2) BO 3753(GP40) BO 6566(GP9) BO 3748(GP40)
Views:  904   Comments: 2
C&O 2306
Title:  C&O 2306
Description:  Huntington lite engines.
Photo Date:  6/27/1981  Upload Date: 3/5/2007 9:59:38 AM
Location:  Russell, KY
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 2306(U23B) CO 8267(B30-7) BO 6954(GP30) CO 2303(U23B) BO 4207(GP40-2)
Views:  2099   Comments: 0
C&O 7304
Title:  C&O 7304
Description:  A C&O SD18 and caboose sit in front of the Russell, KY depot.
Photo Date:  6/27/1981  Upload Date: 3/5/2007 9:43:43 AM
Location:  Russell, KY
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7304(SD18)
Views:  926   Comments: 0
C&O 7312
Title:  C&O 7312
Description:  Two Chessie/C&O SD18's make a reverse move past the Russell Depot and RU Cabin.
Photo Date:  6/27/1981  Upload Date: 6/27/2006 2:57:34 PM
Location:  Russell, KY
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7312(SD18) CO 7309(SD18)
Views:  1148   Comments: 0
B&O 4004 #88
Title:  B&O 4004 #88
Description:  #88 approaches the East End of Aiken Siding at Jackson Station crossing....
Photo Date:  7/25/1981  Upload Date: 12/3/2006 3:20:41 PM
Location:  Jackson, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4004(GP40) CO 4824(GP38)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
B&O 6925 #396
Title:  B&O 6925 #396
Description:  B&O #396 heads back to the Keystone Sub from the P&LE. At the time of the photo the P&LE's Connellsville branch (behind the locomotives) was still in service.
Photo Date:  10/4/1981  Upload Date: 3/10/2007 12:32:25 PM
Location:  Port Vue, PA
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6925(GP30) BO 4100(GP40-2)
Views:  1004   Comments: 1
Chessie/B&O 4212
Title:  Chessie/B&O 4212
Description:  B&O 4212 pilots an eastbound grain train to Baltimore
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 8/10/2007 8:40:06 PM
Location:  Halethorpe, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4212(GP40-2)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
B&O/Chessie 4430
Title:  B&O/Chessie 4430
Description:  Extra 4430 west passing another westbound empty hopper train
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 3/9/2007 12:21:07 PM
Location:  Saint Denis, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4430(GP40-2) BO 6910(GP30) BO 3768(GP40)
Views:  2094   Comments: 0
Chessie/B&O 4124 GW-97
Title:  Chessie/B&O 4124 GW-97
Description:  GW-97 rolls off the Old Main Line and onto the Metropolitan Sub at Point of Rocks.
Photo Date:  9/22/1984  Upload Date: 11/30/2006 8:09:36 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4124(GP40-2) BO 4101(GP40-2)
Views:  835   Comments: 0


Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors
  Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net