{"id":44173,"date":"2026-05-03T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44173"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:41:17","slug":"have-a-ball-at-cape-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/have-a-ball-at-cape-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Ball at Cape Charles!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes you just stumble onto something cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were driving north on Highway 13 in Virginia when Kris said, \u201cLet\u2019s take a left here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we did, and we drove into the village of Cape Charles, where we found an unlikely railroad museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, it featured a replica ball signal\u2014illustrating the early use of such hardware on the Delmarva Peninsula\u2014a Bay Coast GP10 (an ex\u2013Illinois Central Gulf Paducah rebuild), plus a selection of railcars. All are static displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also discovered the Cape Charles Brewing Company, a beach, and vestiges of the old Pennsylvania Railroad, which at one time operated Chesapeake Bay car floats from the local harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the downside, we found that, apart from the museum, there\u2019s not much railroad remaining on the Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made a few slides with my dad’s Leica M4. These are my digital photos as the film is still in the camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Site of the former Pennsyvlania Railroad yard at Cape Charles, Virginia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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