Silhouetted against a clear night sky are the Searchlights at Control Point Simon along the Guyandot River Branch.

Covered Wagon Quartet Over The Potomac. While heading to Mobile, Alabama, Norfolk Southern Train 956 led by F9A NS 4270 (née-Baltimore & Ohio 937, F7A, EMD, 1/1952) crossed the Potomac Ri... (more)

Loaded coal train CSX T208 has the green through the end of the Big Coal siding in Sproul, West Virginia and passes under a C&O signal cantilever with a dwarf mounted to it that guards this interl... (more)

A loaded ethanol train heads east through a summer storm behind a trio of power foreign to the CSX.

MAC Nests: CSXT 4764, a brand new SD70MAC rebuild, leads empty grain train CSX G228 westbound along the CSX New River Subdivision through Hawks Nest State Park.

Memorial Day flags.

A trio of Norfolk Southern locomotives lead intermodal train 217 as it soars over the town of Kenova, West Virginia as it approaches the bridge across the Ohio River. The approach trestle to the m... (more)

After switching Kraton, BIP 178 slides down the bridge into the yard at Parkersburg with loaded tanks from the customer.

Caldwell Curves: CSXT 4764, a freshly released EMD SD70MAC rebuild, leads empty grain train CSX G228 westbound along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision through Caldwell, West Virginia, just before day... (more)

Crossing the Tygart Valley River at Tygart Junction, A&O local slows to interchange with the WVC Railroad for outbound freight to CSX.

A&O local Z830 passes the classic B&O CPL’s that soon fall at Berryburg Junction with 21 cars of freight to interchange with CSX at Grafton.

With 87 loads in tow, C034 makes a run for the grade at Briden with a H106 helper attached at the rear.

Manns Manifests: CSXT 3260 leads local manifest train CSX L211 eastbound out of Manns Tunnel in Fort Spring, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.

C034-10 rolls thru the street in St. Mary’s with 87 loads of coal headed to the New Haven Power plant.

Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)