For Tuesday it's back to the footbridge on top of the roundhouse at Grafton West Virginia where we have a GP40 still in B&O paint and a Chessie GP40-2 taking a spin around the turntable. April 23, 1977.

Amid wet, rain-soaked autumn foliage, an eastbound CSX freight curves through Mance, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 1988. Four of the six locomotives in the consist still wear the colors of Chessie System.

Harpers Ferry, WVa. 10-17-1985

Westbound QD passes Rowlesburg station on the west side of Cheat River, ahead lies the B&O Mountain Subdivision Cheat grade

CSX M216-29 at Storrs in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 30, 2023

Chessie Cumberland Terminal sign, B&O Chessie SD40-2 #7619, , Cumberland, Maryland. April 1, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

B&O GP40 3743 leads eastbound QD freight #88 at MP 243.5 on the Mountain Subdivision nearing the top of Cranberry Grade coming out of Bradshaw Curve at McGuires just west of Terra Alta, WV on cold February 23, 1985.

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Part 2 of a double WhaMmy for F unit Friday. Renumbered Western Maryland #58 leads an eastbound freight across the stone arch bridge just west of Lodi on June 26, 1977. Several of these bridges were built with local stone in 1910 when the line between Warwick and Willard (Chicago Junction) was upgraded. The bridges remain in service but like a lot of scenes, they are hardly visible.

A former Chessie bay window caboose serving as the yard office for SCF Lewis & Clark is partially underwater due to the flooding Mississippi River here in Venice Twp, IL.

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Chessie, B&O, SD40-2 7617 leads a westbound ore train out of Falls Cut tunnel on the ex-B&O Keystone sub at, Falls Cut, Fairhope, Pennsylvania. May 9, 1986, Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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Spending some time around CSX's New Castle sub the past few days reminded me that it was a frequent haunt for me back in spring times of the 80's. Chasing along the 50 miles or so of the B&O that parallels Rt 224 east of Willard with the optimism of better weather coming and the Tribe Spring Training from Tuscon on the radio is a good memory. Here's one of those basic trains that looks pretty good now. 3 of the ubiquitous GP40's lead a westbound mixed freight at Pawnee in March 1987.

Chessie, C&O, SD50 8562 leads an east bound grain train at, Huntington, West Virginia. January 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

#8562, built 1/1984.

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New Chessie SD50 units with older power as B&O SD50 8588 rests at Grafton, WV on December 8, 1984. At the time I would have been astonished to know that the 50 series would mark the beginning of the end of EMD dominance. D Tower is on the left.

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Chessie, Baltimore and Ohio, B&O GP40 #3701, eastbound crossing the Youghiogheny River on the P&LE at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. September 12, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

#3701, built 2/1969.

Chessie B&O SD35 #7408, at the B&O engine terminal at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. June 6, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Built as, B&O #7408 SD35, July, 1964.

B&O #7408>CSX #4552

C&O Chessie System GP30 3032 sits with other power beside D Tower at Grafton, WV on the night of April 7, 1987.

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Chessie B&O SD40-2 7617 leads a westbound ore train out of the tunnel on the B&O Keystone sub at, Falls Cut, Pennsylvania. May 9, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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A Chessie System eastbound autorack train rolls through Pittsburgh on the P&LE main next to the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in June 1985. This was shot from the sidewalk of the Fort Pitt freeway bridge that crosses the Monongahela before entering the triangle of downtown Pittsburgh. No car trouble needed. The West End bridge in the distance crosses the Ohio RIver that starts right here where the Monongahela joins the Allegheny. Most through Chessie trains like this one used the P&LE main between New Castle and McKeesport to avoid the grades and curves of the B&O's P&W line. I was staying at the hotel neat the point of the Golden Triangle and walked out on the bridge before the day's meetings.

Chessie, B&O, WM, C&O, GP9's #6444- #6402- #6520, and many others in storage at, Cumberland. Maryland. April 1, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

B&O 3507 works the yard job in front of the yard office. The power for RS97, with B&O 4185, is parked on the main down below while the crew gets their orders and train info from the Brooks Ave. yard office in Gates, NY on May 19, 1980.

A southbound mixed freight passes the shell of the tower at Leipsic, Ohio in June 1988. As the second unit shows, it was CSX by then but the lead GP40 still wears Chessie System paint with C&O lettering. In the spring and early summer of 1988, I spent a lot of time in Lima, Ohio backfilling a spot on a modernization project at the refinery. When I could get out of the plant in daylight, I would typically cruise up and down Rt 65 looking for DT&I trains on the this trackage that they shared but usually found CSX southbounds. They usually had a fleet of southbounds in the afternoon. Leipsic was a crossing of the former B&O between Toledo and Cincinnati and the former NKP mainline.

Chessie, B&O #4299- #4056 with a westbound crossing over at, Confluence, Pennsylvania. March 26, 1983. A little more than a year after this photo was taken, and train derailed at this location, and the tower was destroyed. The operator was killed in this derailment, may he rest in piece. You just never know what could possibly happen standing track side.

It isn't the best photo, but the only one of two I had taken of this tower, sorry to say.

Chessie C&O, CSXT SD50 8633 8637 with a westbound train on the ex-B&O Keystone sub at signal location Bluestone, S Connellsville, Pennsylvania. March 7, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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The conductor on a CSX transfer out of C&NW’s Proviso Yard looks back at his train rocking and rolling through the crossovers at Bellwood, Illinois, on September 1, 1991. The train is entering Indiana Harbor Belt/Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal trackage at CP Hill.

I have a note on this slide that this was the first train with Sterling Tower on full remote auto. The train is Q136 and the date is December 23, 1988. The ballast of the former EL mainline is in the foreground.

Chessie, C&O GP40 4067 leads eastbound R396 on the ex-B&O Keystone sub. The train passes under the ex-P&WV trestle over the Youghiogheny River at, Banning, Pennsylvania. November 11, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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Electro-Motive Diesel SD60 demontrator EMD 4 leads a B&O Chessie System SD50 and a B&O GP9 on westbound coal empties decending Newberg Grade at Hardman, WV on October 27, 1985.

IAIS 506 & 708 pull SIBI into Rockdale as they creep through the yard passing by caboose C&O 903282. This about 50 year old caboose was painted in red C&O paint and was their “Make This Year a Safer Year” caboose. It is still earning its keep for the CSX Rockdale Job on the former Rock Island.

Baltimore and Ohio, B&O SD35 #7409 rest at, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. October 3, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff photo©

Western Maryland, WM GP40 #3797 leads a autorack train at Relay, Maryland. October 5, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Chesapeake & Ohio GP30 No. 3021, along with Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 No. 4335 and sister C&O GP30 No. 3001, sit at Barr Yard at Riverdale, Illinois, on a cold and foggy November 23, 1986.

We drove down to North East yesterday to get a PL roster of the C&O 8272 at the railway museum.

When there was a lull from people visiting the cab I quickly climbed up and closed the door to grab a couple nice rosters.

Plaster Creek interlocking is the name of the east end of C&O’s (formerly Pere Marquette, now CSX) Wyoming Yard outside of Grand Rapids. Named for the creek that the railroad passes over on a series of bridges, it is the first bit of controlled track that eastbound trains encounter leaving the yard. At one time controlled by Plaster Creek Tower, the plant’s switches and signals are now controlled by the dispatcher. In May of 1979, we see SW9 #5249 waiting on the Sunnyside Lead for a signal into the yard. The holdup is an eastbound threading its way from the Old Even to the Main behind a GP35-GP30 duo. With a rather short train, I have to wonder if it might be the daily GR-Saginaw freight that would run via the old Turkey Trail at Elmdale.

A scanned slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

Chessie B&O GP7 5608 - GP9 6014, a view of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance at Baltimore, Maryland. April 6, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff photo

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A South Branch Valley grain train rolls North along the South Branch of the Potomac River through the beautiful fall colors of West Virginia with a pair of former B&O GP9s on the rear.

C&O GP30 #3026 has quite a few companions as it pauses on the main at Freeland on the Ludington Subdivision. The train appears to be westbound, fresh power for Ludington and Manistee? A scanned slide from my collection take 4/24/1983 by B. Carlson.

Chessie B&O GP40 3779, leads a eastbound coal train into the B&O yard on the Keystone sub at Connellsville, Pennsylvania October 14, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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Chesapeake & Ohio Alco C630 sits on the fuel track at Wyoming Yard in Grand Rapids on July 16, 1974. Coupled behind it are a GP9 and a GP30. At left, barely in the frame is an EMD switcher in fresh Chessie System paint. Time was just about up for the big Alcos, which would be stored by the end of the year. In 1975, C&O would sell them to Morrison Knudsen, which would rebuild them and sell them to Australia’s Robe River Iron. A scanned slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

Norfolk Western, NW SD45's #1723 -#1796 -#1791, with a westbound WJ01 about to depart the ex-B&O yard at, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. June 12, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Chessie System GP40 #3792 pulls a Westbound Ore Train past an old B&O CPL at West Avalon, Md. on 05-15-1984

(SEE & HEAR)---Chessie, CSXT SD50 #8572 -SD40-2's #8351 -#8248 -#8250, with a westbound ore train departing Cumberland, Maryland. September 26, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo.

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This was one heck of a climb. It took your breath away, and you could feel your heart beating in your throat. I would NEVER be able to tackle this today. While you are sitting up there, you pray that there isn't a rock slide. They would never find you.

Chessie, C&O GP30 #4214, leads eastbound empties down the hill at Schenley, Pennsylvania. October 30, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

(SEE & HEAR)---Chessie B&O SD40-2 8257 leads west on the B&O Keystone sub at, NA, Philson, Pennsylvania. March 12, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video

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CSX, Cumberland, MD. shops C&O #4291, CSX #4246 - #6524 - C&O #8413 - #9565, July 2, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

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(SEE & HEAR)---CSX GP40 6585 -GP38 2050 -GP40-2 6504 -GP30 4210, with eastbound R396 at Salisbury Junction, Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video

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6585, built as B&O 4010, 9/1971.

2050, built as C&O 3850, 10/1967.

6504, built as SCL 1646. 4/1972.

4210, built as C&O 3015,1/1963.

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C&O, Chesapeake and Ohio GP35 #3520, at Detroit, Michigan. November 24, 1979. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

(SEE & HEAR)---C&NW 6864 CSX 6085 -Chessie 8259 -MGA 2304, with a WEPX train on the MGA's Waynesburg Southern coming through East View Cut south of Waynesburg, Rogersville, Pennsylvania. December 6, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video

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CSX M216-29 at North Bend, Ohio on June 30, 2023

(SEE & HEAR)---Chessie CSX GP40 #6034, leads an eastbound R-136 past the CPL's one the old B&O Keystone sub at Reduction, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video

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