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AMTK 225 |
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1.16.1991 West of Greenwood, VA, Milepost 200. AMTK 225. F40PH (B/D 5/76, BN 757099-26) Making its way uphill toward the Blue Ridge Tunnel leading the Westbound Cardinal at 4:57 PM. |
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1/16/1990 Upload Date: 8/21/2022 11:00:09 AM |
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Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 225(F40PH) |
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AMTK 182 |
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8.3.22 Greenwood, VA. AMTK 182 (P42DC B/D 6/2001, BN 53038) leading Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal #50 down the Blue Ridge Grade. To the right in the shadows you can make out the arched portal of Greenwood Tunnel, the first of 4 tunnels built prior to the Civil War under the engineering direction of Claudius Crozet. This 518 ft. tunnel part of the original Blue Ridge grade out of Charlottesville to the Blue Ridge Tunnel beneath Rockfish Gap. Greenwood Tunnel was completed In 1853. It was bypassed and abandoned in 1941-42. |
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8/3/2022 Upload Date: 8/3/2022 5:07:07 PM |
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Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 182(P42DC) |
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CSX 3444 |
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8.3.22 Greenwood, VA. CSX 3444 (ET44AH, BN 63772) at Greenwood leading an empty coal train up the Blue Ridge grade. |
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8/3/2022 Upload Date: 8/3/2022 5:18:14 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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CSX 3444(ET44AH) |
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AMTK 147 |
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5.3.2023 Greenwood, VA. AMTK 147 leading the westbound Cardinal up the Blue Ridge Grade on its way to Chicago. I am standing on what remains of the former C&O depot at the rural village of Greenwood. In the center forefront you can see the the concrete foundation outline of the bay window and the platform beyond. |
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5/3/2023 Upload Date: 5/4/2023 8:52:45 AM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 147(P42DC) |
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AMTK 83 on the Blue Ridge Grade |
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1.14.2024 Greenwood, VA. AMTK 83 on the point of the westbound Cardinal climbing the long Blue Ridge Grade. I am s standing on the remains of the concrete foundation for the former C&O depot, about where the bay window once stood. |
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1/14/2024 Upload Date: 1/14/2024 3:20:17 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 83(P42DC) |
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AMTK 324 on the Blue Ridge Grade |
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2.16.2024 AMRK 324 on the head-end of the eastbound Cardinal, descending the Blue Ridge Grade toward its next station stop at Charlottesville. To the right is the now sealed portal of the C&O Greenwood Tunnel, completed in the mid 1850s, but abandoned during C&O's ROW re-alignment and infrastructure upgrade project to the Mountain Subdivision in 1947-48. |
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2/16/2024 Upload Date: 2/17/2024 9:16:29 AM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 324(ALC-42) |
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AMTK 157 |
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2.25.2024 Greenwood, VA. This is the view the operator at Greenwood, VA station would have had looking east through the bay window. Of course the station is no longer in existence, same as for the freight yard and freight house that were located on the opposite side of the tracks. Amazingly, as you can see, most of the communication works remain intact on the telephone poles in this area of the grade. Today, we see the late-running Westbound Cardinal as it makes its way up the Blue Ridge Grade. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 3:10:37 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 157(P42DC) |
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AMTK 174 on the Cardinal |
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2.25.2024 Greenwood, VA. AMTK 174 leading the eastbound Cardinal coming down the Blue Ridge Grade on its way to have a meeting at Ivy with its late running westbound counterpart, train #51. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 11:59:57 AM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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AMTK 174(P42DC) |
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BB 16 running the late dinner train down the Blue Ridge Grade |
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2.25.2024. Greenwood, VA. In the fading afternoon light, we find Buckingham Branch #16 on the point of this evening's Blue Ridge Flyer dinner train. Because the train had dealt with several waits for passing Amtrak and CSX trains, it was running late. Due to the lateness, the BB dispatcher instructed the 16 to make their return run-around at Crozet instead of Ivy, shaving about 30 minutes off of the return trip. The engineer jokingly responded that he was now to be known as the "Crozet Turn." |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 4:05:04 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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CSX 407 battling the Blue Ridge Grade |
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2.25.2024. Greenwood, VA. CSX 407 in the late dat shadows finding itself at the end of the locomotive consist on a long empty coal train battling the Blue Ridge Grade. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 3:45:12 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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CSX 407(AC44CW) |
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CSX 795 battling the Blue Ridge Grade |
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2.25.2024 Greenwood, VA. CSX 795 leading a long, empty coal train up the Blue Ridge Grade at Greenwood. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 3:36:18 PM |
| Location: |
Greenwood, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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CSX 795(ES44AC-H) |
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