Nobody is safe now.

While PTC and modernization upgrades have all but wiped out their N&W CPL brethren on the Pocahontas Division, most of the Southern-style color lights still stand... (more)

The show must go on

With the passing of Winter Storm Jonas, and the roads clearing up thanks to an abundance of winter warmth, the railroads have finally began reverting to normal op... (more)

An empty well train sits idle on main 2 at the entrance to Russell Yard on a cold January evening. While the well train & it's SD40-2 sit empty and idle, Lexington Branch local Y206-06 pass by on... (more)

Crossing the West Virginia/Virginia state line, the pushers on NS 776 are hard at work for the last few miles to Bluefield, passing the CPL's at the east end of Flat Top Yard.

After dropping off a cut of empty hoppers for KRT in Ceredo, J16 turns their power of two ex-Conrail Dash 8's and a CEFX SD9043MAC on the wye at Kenova to allow the next day's crew to depart Kenov... (more)

Russell to Richmond manifest Q302-04 accelerates through Ashland on a frigid December evening, heading for their first stop at South Charleston Yard in the capitol city of West Virginia.

Taking care of (what little) business (remains)

210 empty hoppers and three generations of GE products head down the Big Sandy Subdivision towards Paintsville, passing the C&O bracke... (more)

Business as usual

Not much has changed at the Suncoke KRT transloading facility over the past year. With the steep decline of the coal industry, the yard once filled with cuts of ... (more)

Westbound manifest 195 hustles out of Williamson towards Portsmouth, Ohio and points west, passing the center siding at Nolan, West Virginia. As progress has spread like wildfire to the Williamson... (more)

Well...that can't be good

It seems the 2% grades of the Princeton-Deepwater District have taken a toll on U85, today's train being one of the last of the ex-VGN hill runs. As the tr... (more)

As the light fades early in the evening, Roanoke bound manifest 188 passes the dual-mast & single-mast CPL's at McCarr just east of Matewan. The eastbound replacement signals are already in place... (more)

Having sat idle at Massey Energy's Sprouse Creek loadout for several years, the former Southern hi-hood now sports new reporting marks on the cab, and (according to security personnel on site) has... (more)

Classic Covel

With the news of the Elmore to Kellysville section of the ex-Virginian P-D District being shut down in favor of the lower-grade Guyandot River Branch, the days of 2... (more)

After cresting the 2% grade from Deepwater to Oak Hill, Elmore bound U91 begins down the 1% grade between Oak Hill and Pax, just a few seconds away from crossing the trestle over Painter Creek at ... (more)

Westbound coal loads head through the town of Louisa under the C&O cantilever on the mainline at the East End of Louisa siding. With a section of the ex-CRR/Kingsport Subdivision mothballed, catc... (more)