from San Bernardino, loaned me his car, and I drove under the James River in the highway tunnel to Newport News. CSX’s engine terminal was just north of 39th Street bridge where I could shoot the variety of locomotives sitting next to the steam-era coaling tower.


While I had the use of Sean’s car, I


was checking out Norfolk Southern’s huge yard at Lambert’s Point. I ran into another rail buff, John Cum- mings from Minonk, Illinois, who was an Aviation Maintenance Administra- tor on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy. As we watched the SD40 and its slug switching the innumer- able hoppers, we gauged each others’ interest and knowledge and found them very similar. We both wished we’d been here a few years earlier when smoky C630s were pounding the leads at Lamber’s Point instead of the seemingly innumerable EMD’s which had replaced the Alcos a few years earlier. We both liked Norfolk South- ern, but felt that CSX’s variety and color was much more desirable. John and I had each found a kindred spirit in this Navy city far from our mid- western towns. Better yet, John had


TOP: Norfolk Southern’s unloading terminal at Lamberts Point included this interesting tail track which caught just-unloaded coal cars and sent them by gravity through a spring switch into the departure yard. LEFT: The barge for Cape Charles is loaded at Eastern Shore’s terminal at Little Creek, Va., waiting for a tug to tow it to Cape Charles. BELOW: The Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line’s little SW1200s shuttled freight between the yards through Hampton Road’s packed neighbor- hoods. One of the railroad drawbridges points to the sky in the background.


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