A very short [one car] edition of Norfolk Southern’s Office Car Special visited CONWAY YARD briefly around mid-day today.  Engineer Mike Almendinger was cabbed from his home terminal of MANSFIELD, OH to take the OCS to COLSON, OH. The OCS is on its way to the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum in Chattanooga, TN for [...]

  CSX Updates Status of Storm Recovery August 31, 6 p.m. – CSX has substantially cleared its track infrastructure affected by Hurricane Irene. However train service in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions remains slow as recovery efforts continue, commercial power is restored, and the substantial backlog of trains is worked down. In addition to securing [...]

  CSX Updates Status of Storm Impact August 28, 2011, 5 p.m. – As Tropical Storm Irene continues to move along its path, CSX employees are assessing impacts to the railroad while removing trees from tracks and deploying generators to areas where electrical service is out. There has been flooding in some locations along the [...]

  Innkeeper Note:  We received a note with accompanying images from ROBERT A. SHOOK.  It seems that CSX work train we watched pass The FALLSTON FLAGSTOP Railfan B&B on Saturday afternoon tied up at SODEM, which is east of us on the CSX Pittsburgh Sub.  ROBERT had gone out there to photograph a WLE ore [...]