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Viewing Album:  Instamatic images of 1970 and 1971 visits to Staunton, VA
 
By:G. R. Harper
Dates:11/15/1970 - 12/28/1971
Album Info:C&O images at Staunton during two visits a year apart
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Derailed coal hopper in a field two miles outside of Staunton
Title:  Derailed coal hopper in a field two miles outside of Staunton
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:32:41 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Ties chewed up prior to derailment site
Title:  Ties chewed up prior to derailment site
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:34:16 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Derailed car parts shoved to the side of the right-of-way
Title:  Derailed car parts shoved to the side of the right-of-way
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:35:38 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Coal hopper car bodies and trucks in a field.
Title:  Coal hopper car bodies and trucks in a field.
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:38:28 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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A resident of Staunton, friend of mine at the derailment site.
Title:  A resident of Staunton, friend of mine at the derailment site.
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:40:17 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  190   Comments: 0
Yours truly surveys the derailment damage.
Title:  Yours truly surveys the derailment damage.
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:42:07 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  241   Comments: 0
Yours truly leaning up against at derailed hopper car.
Title:  Yours truly leaning up against at derailed hopper car.
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:43:23 PM
Location:  La Grange, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  282   Comments: 0
Chesapeake Western yard office in Staunton, VA
Title:  Chesapeake Western yard office in Staunton, VA
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:44:35 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  288   Comments: 0
Staunton train shed and platform from above.
Title:  Staunton train shed and platform from above.
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:45:30 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Station
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Views:  400   Comments: 0
Eastbound signal viewed from east end of Staunton station platform
Title:  Eastbound signal viewed from east end of Staunton station platform
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:46:45 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  187   Comments: 0
Staunton sign at the east end of the train shed
Title:  Staunton sign at the east end of the train shed
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Photo Date:  11/28/1970  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:48:04 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Station
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Views:  405   Comments: 0
Downtown Staunton Dec. 1971
Title:  Downtown Staunton Dec. 1971
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:49:05 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  316   Comments: 0
Staunton C&O (Amtrak now) station
Title:  Staunton C&O (Amtrak now) station
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:50:22 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Station
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Views:  326   Comments: 0
Eastbound Amtrak Riley (or Geo Washington???) arrives Staunton
Title:  Eastbound Amtrak Riley (or Geo Washington???) arrives Staunton
Description:  HMMM. this might have been taken in July 1972
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:51:03 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  BO 1456(E9A)
Views:  703   Comments: 1
Eastbound Amtrak in Staunton
Title:  Eastbound Amtrak in Staunton
Description:  This might have been taken in summer of 1972. We went to Transpo '72 that summer
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:53:04 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  BO 1456(E9A)
Views:  633   Comments: 0
Rear of the eastbound Amtrak at Staunton
Title:  Rear of the eastbound Amtrak at Staunton
Description:  Check out the steam heat escaping from the rear. I think this was a July, 1972 picture
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:54:42 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories:  Station
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Views:  444   Comments: 0
Eastbound train crosses over Greenville Ave in Staunton, VA
Title:  Eastbound train crosses over Greenville Ave in Staunton, VA
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:56:21 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  316   Comments: 0
Westbound Amtrak leaving Staunton
Title:  Westbound Amtrak leaving Staunton
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:57:22 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
C&O 6172 switching the heating plant at Western State Hospital
Title:  C&O 6172 switching the heating plant at Western State Hospital
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:58:20 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Locomotives:  CO 6172(GP9)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
C&O 6172 on the ramp at Western State Hospital
Title:  C&O 6172 on the ramp at Western State Hospital
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 7:59:39 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Locomotives:  CO 6172(GP9)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
C&O hopper car supplying coal for Western State heating plant
Title:  C&O hopper car supplying coal for Western State heating plant
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:00:46 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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C&O 6172 adjacent to the "C&O Flats" area of the railroad
Title:  C&O 6172 adjacent to the "C&O Flats" area of the railroad
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:03:13 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Locomotives:  CO 6172(GP9)
Views:  487   Comments: 0
In your face C&O lettering on the side of C&O 6172 at the "C&O Flats"
Title:  In your face C&O lettering on the side of C&O 6172 at the "C&O Flats"
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:04:50 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  150   Comments: 0
The end of a boxcar on the C&O main line west of the Staunton passenger station
Title:  The end of a boxcar on the C&O main line west of the Staunton passenger station
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:06:01 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
Derailed empty hopper cars across from the Western State Hospital
Title:  Derailed empty hopper cars across from the Western State Hospital
Description:  DEAR ME!!! Just hours after my friend and I had watched the heating plant get switched a westbound hopper train derailed where we had been!
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:07:09 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  359   Comments: 0
Looking down on the derailment site in Staunton, VA
Title:  Looking down on the derailment site in Staunton, VA
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:09:51 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  408   Comments: 0
Big Hook picks up hopper car body
Title:  Big Hook picks up hopper car body
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:11:09 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  289   Comments: 0
Suspended hopper car body
Title:  Suspended hopper car body
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:12:35 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  180   Comments: 0
Easy does it! Hopper car body lowered into gondola to be hauled off
Title:  Easy does it! Hopper car body lowered into gondola to be hauled off
Description:  Back in the days when the RRs cleaned up wrecks THEMSELVES!! No Hulcher or Cranemasters here today
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:13:34 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
Derailment cleanup seen from a distance
Title:  Derailment cleanup seen from a distance
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:17:32 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
Big Hook lifts a truck out of the debris field
Title:  Big Hook lifts a truck out of the debris field
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:18:26 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  217   Comments: 0
Eastbound Amtrak passes through wreck site
Title:  Eastbound Amtrak passes through wreck site
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Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:19:19 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Views:  218   Comments: 0
Wreck train with retrieved hopper car body behind the Staunton passenger station
Title:  Wreck train with retrieved hopper car body behind the Staunton passenger station
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:20:15 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
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Locomotives:  CO 6199(GP9)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
CO 6024 and sister behind the Staunton Amtrak (C&O) station
Title:  CO 6024 and sister behind the Staunton Amtrak (C&O) station
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:21:37 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 6024(GP9)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
CO 6231 shoving cars into "C&O Flats"
Title:  CO 6231 shoving cars into "C&O Flats"
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:22:58 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 6231(GP9)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
The hopper car body loading process seen from a distance
Title:  The hopper car body loading process seen from a distance
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1971  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 8:16:01 PM
Location:  Staunton, VA
Author:  G. R. Harper
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 6231(GP9)
Views:  259   Comments: 0

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