Viewing Album: Rails at Reusens - Railroad Picture Archives.NET

4/25/2024

Viewing Album: Rails at Reusens

By:	G. R. Harper
Dates:	11/1/1946 - 7/18/2023
Album Info:	Shots of trains in my 'hood, past and present. Reusens is located at MP CAB 150 on the CSXT James River S-D. A mile-long siding is here.

Page Controls

View: Pics Per Page:

Not really railroad related, but it is a nice little reminder of the days when Reusens was a stand-alone community, and not so much simply a Lynchburg neighborhood.

Title:	Not really railroad related, but it is a nice little reminder of the days when Reusens was a stand-alone community, and not so much simply a Lynchburg neighborhood.
Description:	Earl Moran, who drew the calendar art, was quite a prolific pin-up girl artist. Marilyn Monroe in her early years modeled for him! This illustration, needless to say, is one of his milder drawings.
Photo Date:	11/1/1946 Upload Date: 7/16/2011 11:56:50 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1282 Comments: 1

Low wave C&O geeps eastbound spring 1964

Title:	Low wave C&O geeps eastbound spring 1964
Description:	Box camera shot taken in 1964. The signal was retired and removed on August 4, 2008.
Photo Date:	1/1/1964 Upload Date: 9/7/2007 8:06:09 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1491 Comments: 0

Allow me a moment of personal privilege. Here is an eleven-year-old GRH (left) standing at Hydro Street and Old Trents Ferry Rd.

Title:	Allow me a moment of personal privilege. Here is an eleven-year-old GRH (left) standing at Hydro Street and Old Trents Ferry Rd.
Description:	Looking a bit like Eddie Munster, here is the author of this album and others.
Photo Date:	1/1/1964 Upload Date: 3/9/2010 10:09:35 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1804 Comments: 2

C&O caboose 262 on the rear of a train in 1964 past the dam

Title:	C&O caboose 262 on the rear of a train in 1964 past the dam
Description:	Look at all the code line wires, too, back in 1964.
Photo Date:	6/11/1964 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:27:58 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:	1495 Comments: 1

Original Norfolk Southern boxcar on a 1964 train

Title:	Original Norfolk Southern boxcar on a 1964 train
Description:	NS (original) boxcar at Reusens, VA
Photo Date:	6/11/1964 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:30:11 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:	1936 Comments: 0

B&W C&O GP's EB by the old boathouses at the dam

Title:	B&W C&O GP's EB by the old boathouses at the dam
Description:	One of my first train pictures. I was 11. A Kodak Brownie camera. Eastbound coal at the Reusens dam in June of 1964
Photo Date:	6/15/1964 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 5:26:41 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 6210(GP9)
Views:	1589 Comments: 3

Engineer wave from C&O 624?

Title:	Engineer wave from C&O 624?
Description:	Guessing at the last digit of thei C&O GP9
Photo Date:	7/4/1964 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:38:19 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 6240(GP9)
Views:	1320 Comments: 1

C&O cab 192? EB under the cantilever at the west end of siding

Title:	C&O cab 192? EB under the cantilever at the west end of siding
Description:	A 1966 going away shot
Photo Date:	3/15/1966 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:34:46 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:	1260 Comments: 0

C&O hopper car (at an angle) EB

Title:	C&O hopper car (at an angle) EB
Description:	Dinky (by today's standards) hopper car EB at Reusens, VA
Photo Date:	3/15/1966 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:32:24 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:	1716 Comments: 0

1966 worm's eye view of the C&O

Title:	1966 worm's eye view of the C&O
Description:	Camera on crosstie, then click
Photo Date:	3/15/1966 Upload Date: 2/5/2009 11:36:42 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	945 Comments: 1

C&O 6263 eastbound past the boathouses behind Reusens Dam

Title:	C&O 6263 eastbound past the boathouses behind Reusens Dam
Description:
Photo Date:	3/15/1968 Upload Date: 3/8/2010 7:55:20 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	Action
Locomotives:	CO 6263(GP9)
Views:	1374 Comments: 0

The silent E. J. Lavino furnace at Reusens. Quiet since August 1967

Title:	The silent E. J. Lavino furnace at Reusens. Quiet since August 1967
Description:
Photo Date:	3/1/1970 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 2:19:32 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1066 Comments: 0

Article from Aug. 19, 1967, describing the Lavino plant shutdown. This time it was permanent.

Title:	Article from Aug. 19, 1967, describing the Lavino plant shutdown. This time it was permanent.
Description:
Photo Date:	3/3/1970 Upload Date: 5/25/2016 7:12:31 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1446 Comments: 0

C&O 6086 leads coal train at the east end siding at

Title:	C&O 6086 leads coal train at the east end siding at
Description:	Instamatic shot of eastbound at the east end of Reusens siding.
Photo Date:	4/1/1970 Upload Date: 6/30/2009 5:48:53 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 6086(GP9)
Views:	1179 Comments: 0

A view looking west from a bluff

Title:	A view looking west from a bluff
Description:	A view looking west of the Reusens area above the east end of the siding
Photo Date:	4/1/1970 Upload Date: 6/30/2009 5:53:57 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1070 Comments: 0

Something not seen anymore... pulpwood! at east end Reusens. April 1970

Title:	Something not seen anymore... pulpwood! at east end Reusens. April 1970
Description:
Photo Date:	4/9/1970 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 10:27:00 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	736 Comments: 0

Lots of cabooses on the rear of this April 1970 train near the east end of Reusens

Title:	Lots of cabooses on the rear of this April 1970 train near the east end of Reusens
Description:
Photo Date:	4/10/1970 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 10:24:19 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	859 Comments: 0

E. J. Lavino furnace

Title:	E. J. Lavino furnace
Description:	Here is a shot of the silent E. J. Lavino furnace at Reusens. Closed in August, 1967. It produced ferro-manganese.
Photo Date:	7/7/1970 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 5:48:05 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	2449 Comments: 0

East end Reusens siding straight-railed. New frog needed. Old one tossed to the left. One "bent" of the Southern trestle over the James River visible in background.

Title:	East end Reusens siding straight-railed. New frog needed. Old one tossed to the left. One "bent" of the Southern trestle over the James River visible in background.
Description:
Photo Date:	8/10/1970 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 10:30:29 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	837 Comments: 0

of W equipment store in the house track at Reusens... when there was a house track

Title:	of W equipment store in the house track at Reusens... when there was a house track
Description:	The station at Reusens stood at the far end of the track.
Photo Date:	4/1/1971 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 2:27:44 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	769 Comments: 0

Me, the Geek, standing on M of W equipment parked on the house track at Reusens

Title:	Me, the Geek, standing on M of W equipment parked on the house track at Reusens
Description:	Compare to this photo, taken a few weeks later http://throbbingunits.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=260367
Photo Date:	4/2/1971 Upload Date: 10/20/2015 2:34:34 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	958 Comments: 0

Autumn Leaf Special

Title:	Autumn Leaf Special
Description:	Westbound Autumn Leaf Special at the Reusens Dam. train made loop around Virginia. Newport News to Clifton Forge via the James River, return via Charlottesville.
Photo Date:	10/24/1971 Upload Date: 7/21/2007 1:05:54 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1054 Comments: 0

Yours truly riding the Autumn Leaf Special

Title:	Yours truly riding the Autumn Leaf Special
Description:	I am the very last one in the car. My family had come down to watch us pass by. Those were the days! Imagine riding in an open car today.
Photo Date:	10/24/1971 Upload Date: 10/8/2013 10:53:35 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	956 Comments: 0

Baby brother and a passing C&O train

Title:	Baby brother and a passing C&O train
Description:	My baby brother, Tom, and his friend watch a passing C&O train at the dam at Reusens
Photo Date:	7/7/1973 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 8:52:45 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1306 Comments: 0

Chessie System GE in light snow at the dam

Title:	Chessie System GE in light snow at the dam
Description:
Photo Date:	2/14/1980 Upload Date: 8/6/2007 11:52:07 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 8264(B30-7)
Views:	1700 Comments: 3

C&O and Chessie System in the snow

Title:	C&O and Chessie System in the snow
Description:	C&O 7567 and a GE product bring an eastbound through the curve next to the Reusens hydroelectric plant
Photo Date:	3/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/6/2007 11:37:20 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 7567(SD40)
Views:	1373 Comments: 0

Winter view from my porch overlooking the James River

Title:	Winter view from my porch overlooking the James River
Description:	WM unit and others head west up the James River
Photo Date:	4/14/1980 Upload Date: 8/6/2007 11:58:04 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1017 Comments: 1

Westbound GE action at the dam

Title:	Westbound GE action at the dam
Description:	Chessie System 8278 westbound past the dam at Reusens, VA
Photo Date:	4/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 6:59:54 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 8278(B30-7)
Views:	1036 Comments: 0

Rounding the curve just west of the west end of the siding

Title:	Rounding the curve just west of the west end of the siding
Description:	Chessie 4402 and a GE product bring a train west.
Photo Date:	6/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 6:15:18 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 4402(GP40-2)
Views:	3031 Comments: 8

Bedroom window view from the humble homeplace. Summer 1980

Title:	Bedroom window view from the humble homeplace. Summer 1980
Description:	A bunch of units heads west past the house
Photo Date:	7/7/1980 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 6:42:01 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 4412(GP40-2)
Views:	1284 Comments: 4

614 screams past the dam

Title:	614 screams past the dam
Description:	Whistle screaming for the crossing, 614 heads west past the Reusens Dam on a Richmond-Balcony Falls round trip.
Photo Date:	10/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/7/2007 6:05:38 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 614(4-8-4)
Views:	1792 Comments: 0

Rear of Chessie Steam Special

Title:	Rear of Chessie Steam Special
Description:	Rear of the Chessie Steam Special passes by the transformer yard at the Reusens Dam.
Photo Date:	10/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/7/2007 6:12:26 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	997 Comments: 0

My younger brother Tom, pictured elsewhere in this album, watches some empty C&O / Chessie hoppers go west.

Title:	My younger brother Tom, pictured elsewhere in this album, watches some empty C&O / Chessie hoppers go west.
Description:	Corner of Old Trent's Ferry and Hydro Sts.
Photo Date:	9/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 8:17:39 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	887 Comments: 0

C&O 614 WB

Title:	C&O 614 WB
Description:	614 at Reusens on a Richmond-Balcony Falls trip
Photo Date:	10/1/1981 Upload Date: 7/21/2007 1:02:16 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 614(4-8-4)
Views:	4645 Comments: 1

C&O 4095 in the curve below the dam

Title:	C&O 4095 in the curve below the dam
Description:	Love that Enchantment Blue! Don't yue?
Photo Date:	5/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/23/2007 9:12:10 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 4095(GP40)
Views:	1250 Comments: 0

Chessie GE power eastbound at the dam

Title:	Chessie GE power eastbound at the dam
Description:	EAstbound Chessie System power
Photo Date:	6/15/1982 Upload Date: 2/7/2008 10:25:25 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 8243(B30-7)
Views:	1184 Comments: 0

Caboose telephoto at the dam

Title:	Caboose telephoto at the dam
Description:	Caboose in the distance and new crossties at the dam at Reusens. Note switch ties still in place to former dam spur.
Photo Date:	3/15/1984 Upload Date: 8/6/2007 11:46:16 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:	1131 Comments: 0

Reflections at Reusens

Title:	Reflections at Reusens
Description:	Two Chessie GE's and a C&O EMD are reflected in the misty pond on the James River abovethe Reusens Dam.
Photo Date:	5/14/1984 Upload Date: 8/5/2007 5:13:04 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:	CO 8272(B30-7) CO 3910(GP39) CO 8286(B30-7)
Views:	2721 Comments: 2

Chessie System pair takes a train of mtys west along the JAmes River above the Reusens dam

Title:	Chessie System pair takes a train of mtys west along the JAmes River above the Reusens dam
Description:	Canoe shot. Date approximate
Photo Date:	9/14/1984 Upload Date: 9/5/2009 3:25:02 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	Scenic
Locomotives:	BO 4240(GP40-2) CO 4380(GP40-2)
Views:	1341 Comments: 2

Chessie U-boat long-hood forward on the local freight. Date approximate.

Title:	Chessie U-boat long-hood forward on the local freight. Date approximate.
Description:	Boat houses were severely damaged during the Camille flood in 1969 and were wiped out in the 1985 flood and soon removed thereafter
Photo Date:	9/14/1984 Upload Date: 9/5/2009 3:10:24 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:	Scenic
Locomotives:	CO 8249(B30-7)
Views:	1365 Comments: 0

The flood waters of the Great Flood of 1985 cover the Rails

Title:	The flood waters of the Great Flood of 1985 cover the Rails
Description:	Looking east towards Reusens village during the Flood of 1985
Photo Date:	11/5/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:07:56 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1511 Comments: 1

water-coverd rails

Title:	water-coverd rails
Description:	Flood waters swirl around the Reusens Dam and over the RR tracks
Photo Date:	11/5/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:09:03 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1416 Comments: 3

Flood waters creep up on the west end of the siding

Title:	Flood waters creep up on the west end of the siding
Description:	The water still had about another four feet to go
Photo Date:	11/5/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:10:19 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1172 Comments: 1

The flood of 1985 is about at its crest covering Hydro St and the Rails

Title:	The flood of 1985 is about at its crest covering Hydro St and the Rails
Description:	Reusens Dam at the height of the Great Flood of 1985. Go to http://www.lynchburghistory.com/details.php?gid=&sgid=&pid=9686 to see an aerial shot of t his.
Photo Date:	11/5/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:19:15 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	2106 Comments: 0

Flood waters cascade over the Rails

Title:	Flood waters cascade over the Rails
Description:	Flood waters seeking its own level are taking rr ballast along with it
Photo Date:	11/5/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:11:13 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1389 Comments: 1

Freight cars askew after having been submerged by the flood the day before

Title:	Freight cars askew after having been submerged by the flood the day before
Description:
Photo Date:	11/6/1985 Upload Date: 7/6/2016 2:52:08 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	936 Comments: 0

View from above looking into the Buncher Rail Car yard ravaged by the flood the day before

Title:	View from above looking into the Buncher Rail Car yard ravaged by the flood the day before
Description:
Photo Date:	11/6/1985 Upload Date: 7/6/2016 2:54:47 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	815 Comments: 0

Debris deposited at the east end of the siding

Title:	Debris deposited at the east end of the siding
Description:	The day after the Great Flood of 1985
Photo Date:	11/6/1985 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 10:07:08 AM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1297 Comments: 0

Real estate removed during Flood of 1985

Title:	Real estate removed during Flood of 1985
Description:	Canyon gouged out between the RR and the Reusens power plant
Photo Date:	11/6/1985 Upload Date: 7/21/2007 12:52:51 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1207 Comments: 0

Flood of 85 washout at the Reusens Dam

Title:	Flood of 85 washout at the Reusens Dam
Description:	Rails and ties in mid-air the day after the Flood
Photo Date:	11/6/1985 Upload Date: 7/21/2007 12:15:43 PM
Location:	Reusens, VA
Author:	G. R. Harper
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:	1308 Comments: 1

Page 1 of 33
1 2 3 4 5 ... 33 Next->

Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors

Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net