UPDATE on the spur off CSX, about a mile east of Williamsburg VA --- ... both legs, WHICH HAVE BEEN REMOVED. Otherwise, the track is still in place across...
According to the CSX timetable/rulebook, the wye and everything back to the annex is navy rail. Even the crossing signals are (were) USN maintained. Once saw...
list: lots of images added to previous selection, many from camden-belcross. gary goodmundson, C&A _Click here: America from the Great Depression to World...
FYI, since most of yoyu probably don't get this smalltown newspaper. Mark Fisher IW distribution center announced By Joseph Gidjunis, Smithfield Times Staff...
In the news article related by Mark, below, it appears that the region's distribution planners (networks, that is) might also be seeking other sites for these...
New Branchline Railway Express Reefers in 5 different paint schemes REA 1950's without diamond herald REA 1953 with diamond herald REA1960 light green ACL...
Just got word that an Eastbound U-715-15 coal train has just departed Fulton Yard in Richmond headed for Nweport News with CSX 5001 (Diversity in Motion)...
I thought everyone might like to know that article I wrote about Virginia's homegrown short-line Buckingham Branch Railroad with a Ken Moss photograph taken...
Wikipedia has a new article on the original Norfolk Southern Railway. As anyone familiar with this regional railroad is probably aware, the history is loaded...
It is 3:50 am, There has been a head-on collision between CXS trains on the Portsmouth Sub in Southampton County, Va. near the Sunbeam Rd crossing. Four fire...
... From: John D. Friis To: Tidewater Rails Group Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:53 AM Subject: [Tidewater_Rails] Collision/Derailment/Fire It is 3:50...
All; I had to leave for work just after fire crews got on scene ( I couldn't respond with my volunteer dept due to having to go to my real fire dept job) but...
I just got a call from one of my fire dept guys who was on scene this morning. it was not a head-on crash, it was a rearender. Apparently one train (coal extra...
Its my understanding that it happened just west of Handsom, across from the chickenhouse. Track is very close to 671 there. I have trouble understanding why...
CSX still stating it was head on. WAVY's pictures look that way. Article says Lead locomotive on eastbound flipped on its side and the second locomotive rode...
I can't ell much from these photos but I can only see two engines. If this is so the rock train usually runs two engines. There should be more for a head on...
The way I hear it on the scanner is in blocks. The blocks on the Portsmouth Sub are, from south to north, Weldon, Seaboard, Branchville, Boykins, Hand, ...
Walt It is very easy, several things could happen, 1- Dispatcher gave both trains blocks 2- Crew didn't know blocks 3- Crew failed to adhere to block limits ...
Larry Denton
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Sep 23, 2005 12:41 am
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Cranemasters are hoping to have the track back in service as soon as Friday night but said Saturday is more realistic . I was told by a CSX worker that the...
Larry Also, lets not forget this one, crew to take siding fell asleepand as a result overran their authority.. this did indeed happen early in the morning and...
I never gave it any thought til now but, there is a gentle bend in the track just west of Sunbeam Rd so that the crews would not have seen each other till they...