Westbound

Marshall, Virginia 

611 headed west in a light rain at Marshall, Virginia on Sunday morning.

More steam

Linden, Virginia 

Norfolk & Western 611 on the return trip a few miles east of Front Royal, Virginia on Saturday, June 4th.

Steam

Delaplane, Virginia 

This past weekend Norfolk &Western's J Class 4-8-4 steam locomotive 611 led three round trip excursions between Manassas and Front Royal. In the picture above, 611 passes through Delaplane, At the time of the Civil War, Delaplane was known as Piedmont Station, and it was here that Stonewall Jackson loaded his troops into rail cars bound for the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). It was the first time the railroad was used to move troops into battle.

Feed and Supply

Clearbrook, Virginia 

I left Winchester on old Route 11 and followed the railroad tracks north. A few miles out of town I came on this old feed store. The tracks are not visible in this picture, but they run directly behind the building.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading Photography In Place.

The Trackside Photographer

Today, on The Trackside Photographer, the webside dedicated to the railroad landscape.

Thirty year ago, Eric Gagnon set out to photograph the remaining wooden-crib grain elevators strung out along the tracks of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railroads in Saskatchewan. Now they are gone, but their memory lives on in Eric's photographs of these "Wheat-Filled Wonders." (Click here to read)

Broken fence

Winchester, Virginia

Broken window

Winchester, Virginia