Lester Perry's GERN covered hopper on the Penvan Railroad.

[Mike Kieran]

I dug up some old photos from the Penvan Railroad Historical Society's archives.

Here's their first diesel locomotive, GE 45 tonner #2 picking up a load of GERN Flux for the RU Ready Mix plant and a B&O wagon top box car for the Whist Manufacturing Company.



Penvan Railroad's GE 45 tonner # 2 drops off the covered hopper of GERN Flux at the RU Ready Mix Plant so that they can produce concrete that's 3% harder.



Penvan #2 picks up the empty GERN covered hopper 2 days later for a trip back to the interchange.



And here's where the crew sets it out at the interchange back to Clifton Forge, VA with a D&H box car of round tooits (75% right handed and 25% left handed) going in the same general direction to Potomac, MD on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad.