Conductor Bob Kearns hands up orders to engineer Ross Harrison before departing with the evening local. The train has pulled to a stop in front of the station in Durbin, West Virginia.

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Ex-Meadow Creek Lumber Company Heisler three-truck geared locomotive #6 trundles along the west bank of the Greenbrier River on the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway’s Greenbrier Subdivision with a freight train on a beautiful spring morning. The train is seen running through an area known to locals as Spillman Bottom.

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A westbound freight train comes out of the woods and into a clearing along the riverbank at a spot known as the “swinging bridge”. The engineer and fireman have the Heisler steaming nicely as they work the short freight along the Greenbrier River.

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Hands on railroad President John W. Smith stops by the Durbin enginehouse and chats with the evening hostler taking care of Cass Heisler #6 to see how things are going.

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After running closely along the west bank of the Greenbrier River the freight train enters a wide area of the right-of-way at milepost 92 known as Boyer, West Virginia. The track pases through a farm pasture on a sweeping curve as seen in this going away photo.

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