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Durbin & Greenbrier Valley acquires two Geeps from quarry
I will have to dig out my DeLorme atlas to trace the route these locomotives took. Last year I visited Grafton as well as Elkins, Durbin and Cass. I hope to return this year knowing how to avoid the problems of finding accommodations in the northern part of the state due to Marcellus Shale activity.
Good that a couple of classic locos will be preserved.
Good that a couple of classic locos will be preserved.
Freight service?
I thought this was a tourist road.
What’s the latest on the possible outbound coal traffic originating on this line? Might these be genuine D&GV FREIGHT locomotives?
Nice picture. Thanks.
Timothy, d&gv is mostly a tourist line with 3 seperate train trips but they do run freight opps around the belington and elkins area businesses that still do rail shipments. Wayne I haven’t heard anymore about the potential coal traffic
GLAD to see that they have been “rescued” from the Millville Quarry. Working there was a “Death Sentence” for them.
Many years ago I had the pleasure of riding in the cab of one of these Geeps while it switched the Millville quarry. Millville was a photogenic location to catch both the quarry action and Chessie/CSX trains that came up the branch to Winchester.
For those interested in visiting, there is the rail-themed Iron Road Inn, and Graceland, the summer mansion of magnate Stephen B. Elkins, in Elkins. And the two tracks at Elkins Depot often each hold a departing DGBVRR passenger train simultaneously, a rare sight on an excursion railroad.