My family elected to vacation in Cape May in 2023, which meant I was only about 1.5 hours from the Winchester & Western's New Jersey division. I arrived at Bridgeton to find that J101, the day job to Millville and back, had already left, blundered around Millville and found them, lost them again, then finally found them working Durand Glass. I missed most of 954's opportunities leading the train, but still got a few shots (including the diamond in Millville), plus one or two locations where 576 had to work hard to lift the train up-grade.
As is now tradition, I went and did one big steam chase in 2023, which I'm uploading now. Buckingham Branch, a shortline which leases the former Chesapeake & Ohio main line from CSX, offered a one-off series of excursions powered by former Norfolk & Western Class J 611 from the Virginia Museum of Transportation. With them being only about 2.5 hours from me, I had to make at least one visit, and combined a chase of their Saturday train with a Friday chase of the Shenandoah Valley RR.
(0:00) Intro (0:16) Estalline Valley Rd., Augusta Springs, VA (2:00) Hewitt Road, near Swoope, VA (3:52) Montgomery Ave., Staunton, VA (5:13) Staunton, VA station (7:02) Adding another GP40-2 for the return trip (8:48) Departing for Goshen
