Dickinson Yard, located approximately fourteen miles east of West Virginia’s capital city of Charleston, was the largest yard of the former New York Central’s Kanawha Secondary. The secondary ran from Corning, Ohio, about 60 miles south of Columbus, through Charleston and Dickinson to Swiss about 10 miles beyond Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. Under Penn Central the secondary was known as the Southern Branch.
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It was July 8th, 2020, when I went down to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. Rio Grande Southern #20 was finally doing some test runs after years of being totally rebuilt—from running on the Rio Grande Southern, to a static display, to running again at the CRRM.
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I am on my way to Chicago to attend Conversations 2022, the annual conference of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art on April 8-10. The event is being held live again after a couple of years of virtual conferences made necessary by the pandemic. I look forward to seeing some old friends, meeting some new ones, and attending the many presentations that make up the conference schedule.
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