97J is tied down in Pigeon Creek Yard for the day surrounded by stored cars and MOW equipment

In a classic Pokey scene, a caboose protects a shove move on a branch as a ballast train is put away.

With a caboose on the rear and some white stuff on the ground, its business as usual for this unit train being backed up Pigeon Creek to be floodloaded.

A ballast train spends the night under the stars on an autumn evening in West Virginia.

Modify the paint scheme and this scene could be 30 years old. A former N&W SD40-2 runs long hood forward as it leads a ballast train past the old N&W signal on the Lenore Branch.

A caboose brings up the rear of a work train on Norfolk Southern's Lenore Branch.

With loads off the Lenore Branch U05 heads east through the yard toward Williamson past a shut down 97J and a few stored ballast cars.

Welcome to throughbred MOW country!

GP38-2 sounded kinda sweet idling in the Naugatuck Yard.

SD40-2 enjoys the snowstorm as she idles away over the weekend in the small yard at Naugatuck.

Local MOW train 97J runs nearly everyday of the year maintaining the Kenova District ROW but on December 30 its tied down for the New Year holiday.

After loading out at Big Omer U06 pulls its loads down the Lenore Branch where it will join the Pokey main and head east toward Williamson. To the right is the ever present 97J that performs vario... (more)

In the early morning hours at Pigeon Creek its all MOW. The local MOW train 97J is on the right, 94Z in the middle from Portsmouth, OH and the various MOW equipment which is fired up for loading o... (more)

4626 is turned at Naugatuck, West Virginia.