RINGLING BROS. and BARNUM & BAILEY Circus <http://www.ringling.com> 151.625 is the Circus Train Operations radio frequency (per the FCC) Circus Train Yahoo...
Yesterdays eastbound CSX freight train came through Williamsburg with a silver RBBX flatcar as the fourth car. I was in the 199 interchange so I could not get...
That's right: RBBX 84710, another flatcar, arrived in Hampton VA on March 1, from Acca Yard in Richmond, via a CSXT "H774" train. That makes the Red Unit's...
Photos and report here. http://forums.flightsim.com/ts/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=28&topic_id=1202&mesg_id=1202&page= - Jason Underwood [Non-text portions...
The 58-car RED UNIT Circus Train is "scheduled" to depart Newport News (Hampton) VA at 7am; this is tentative, and they usually try to get out of town BEFORE...
Circus Train was fully asssembled by 7am; EOT placed by 7:30am; FRA brake test commencing; departure out of Newport News EMINENT. --RC ... News (Hampton) VA...
(From Trainorders.com --- there are multiple threads on today's "Page One" of that website of both RBBB trains moves yesterday & today, Red out from Hampton VA...
I'm Paul Gmoser from St. Louis, MO. The reason I'm interested in you group is I spent 8 1/2 years in the Navy, most of them in Norfolk. I still follow the area...
I spotted a GP30 Slug RoadMate (#2263) in the Newport News Yard this evening in the new CSX dark blue paint. First time I have seen a GP30 in the new colors. ...
Pat, The slug set has been here for some time now, and does look sharp in the new colors. I am not aware that the CSX yards carry any name, other than class...
The flat car is a remote control unit. When CSX first started producing remote control units, they used road locomotives as the platform (not to be confused...
Thanks for the info. I too noticed the cabooses had been moved yesterday. Who rides in the cabooses when they go on the road? What type of power does the...
Note the comment about "insane" prices being paid for old locomotives by the CMO of the most profitable profit center in RailAmerica. Apologies for the...
Interesting reading Gary. Thank you! I read on Loco Notes that two GP15s are being prepped for service on the Commonwealth Rwy in Suffolk. Ernest seems to...
"ALL ABOARD THE FAMILY RUN EXPRESS" screems the posters, now up around Richmond VA. March 24/25, 2007 --- Model RR show "WINGS 'n' RAILS" is open 9:30am--5pm,...
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 31st and the fifth annual North Carolina Railroad Expo. The show is at the Hickory NC Metro Center located at Exit 125...
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=181486 jerry <jmlaboda2@...> Passenger Car Photo Indexes - UPDATED 10/05/06 WITH 2407 NEW LINKS ADDED!!! ...
RAILFANS: TAKE PHOTOS OF West Point, Virginia's NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD YARD from overhead, on Saturday, April 7, 2007! BE ONE OF THE FIRST on the new...
That's right: the infamous CSXT [Ohio] RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE is sitting at the freight station siding at Peninsla Subdivision Milepost 33 in Williamsburg VA---to...
I was just reading the notes for some steamers in the book LOGGING RAILROADS OF WEST VIRGINIA, and notice that a Shay was sold to Continental grain in Norfolk,...
My bad. I read the note for a 70T GE from Meadow River Lumber Co., thinking it was one of the Shays. The 70T GE did go to the elevator, and was last seen...
Does anyone know where pictures or drawings (track plan) of the old C&O yard in downtown Norfolk (Brooks Yard, I think was the name) can be found? I can recall...
IIRC it was called Brook Avenue Yard. There is an overhead view in one of my C&O steam books. Jeff H. ... From: "nwlwc" <nwlwc@...> Does anyone know...
44T GE..(I shot it in the late fall of 1965) the Lynchburg college basketball team was playing Old Dominion and they put us up in the Navy YMCA nearby! EdF ...
