Empty grain hoppers make their way west with Old Glory flying above the cab on this Fourth of July weekend. In the distance, the former C&O signal bridge can be seen, still standing after the repl... (more)

Making a late arrival, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal prepares for its station stop at Prince, W.Va.

NS 950 has made the trip all the way from Bellevue, Oh. to Williamson, W.Va. within seven hours. Popping out of Williamson Tunnel, the trains enters the small town and continues on east for a tie-... (more)

A classic Norfolk and Western Color Position signal is on borrowed time as it's PTC-mandated replacement looms nearby. These infamous sentinels are falling quickly on the Norfolk Southern's Pulask... (more)

While coal is not what it used to be in either Kentucky or West Virginia, multiple trains of loaded and empty coal hoppers enter into and out of the coalfields each week. Today finds a loaded trai... (more)

In between falling snowflakes, Q316-28 heads east along CSX's Ohio River Subdivision with two EMD Tier 4 demonstrators on the point. This is former Baltimore & Ohio territory. Signals, however, ar... (more)

With a shiny Boxcar logo unit on the point, Q316 heads east through the small town of Ceredo, WV on a sunny and bitterly cold January afternoon. Q316 will soon head up the Ohio River Subdivision a... (more)

With a single Dash-9 leader on the point, an empty coal train head east on the Pocahontas Division's Kenova District passes the Heartland Intermodal Facility at Prichard, W.Va.

Nearly all the fall color is gone and the sunsets by 1730, not ideal for photography. Making due with the cards we are dealt with, a B&W shot seemed appropriate for this line - ex-C&O Big Sandy... (more)

Dead trees, sharp sunlight and little compositional interest lends itself to a B&W of one of West Virginia's newest railroad operators: Watco, LLC's Kanawha River Railroad. KNWA resumed the che... (more)

A father and son look up at a living time machine, NKP #767 (nee-#765), as it passes by Indigo Lake, Ohio.

The weekend before Labor Day found this GSF GP38-2 hostling a work train into the small yard at Kenova, WV during a pleasantly warm afternoon on ex-N&W Pocahontas Division.

On Kanawha River Railroad's (KNWA) first day of operation, they were off to busy start with switching the yard at Dickinson, one northbound qualifying run to Pt. Pleasant, WV and picked up a few c... (more)

On Kanawha River Railroad's (KNWA) first day of operation, they were off to busy start with switching the yard at Dickinson, one northbound qualifying run to Pt. Pleasant, WV and picked up a few c... (more)

J15, lead by NS OLS unit #4630, leads 36 cars of mixed freight bound for Portsmouth, Ohio as the sun sets on Kenova, ending another fine summer day along the Norfolk Southern's Pocahontas District... (more)