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7,000 new cars: CSX stocks up for tripled coal exports
Published on Apr 3rd, 2012
12 comments If you've recently noticed some spiffy new rail cars rolling o'er the countryside, there's a reason: CSX has been bolstering its fleet with about 7,000 new cars to service the company's massive coal...
Snap: Canoeing Rivanna under the RR
Published on Jun 26th, 2011
2 comments A youthful canoeist peers up at the old C&O Railway bridge near the Woolen Mills neighborhood. The old bridge, now leased to the Buckingham Branch Railroad, carries mostly empty coal and grain...
Person dead after train encounter in Scottsville
Published on Jun 1st, 2011
21 comments An eastbound train and a person who may have been dead, unconscious, or simply lying on train tracks in Scottsville made for a grisly scene Wednesday morning. Officials were called to Ferry Street,...
Choo-ching! New Amtrak service smashes ridership goals
Published on May 20th, 2010
31 comments Richards hopes a second train would allow a longer day-trip to Washington whose opulent Union Station, stands next to the U.S. Capitol. FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Meredith Richards always thought...
Snap: Walkin' the tracks
Published on Oct 16th, 2009
1 comments Two people use the CSX/Buckingham Branch train tracks to travel between Ridge Street–- vantage point for this September 29 photo–- toward the heart of downtown. As some students learned...
Snap o' the Day: Welded rail
Published on May 5th, 2009
1 comments Ben Bryant and Clifton Maxey of the Buckingham Branch Railroad prepare to weld two pieces of rail previously connected by bolted-on bars, shortly before 9am on Tuesday, May 5, near the intersection...
They've been workin' on the railroad
Published on Mar 14th, 2009
8 comments A pair of heavy machines, including a ballast tamper, works near Old Ivy Road March 12, thanks to an $8.59 million, six-year state grant to the Buckingham Branch Railroad, which leases the CSX...