As a kid growing up in Athens, I spent hours some days waiting at Armitage hoping for a train. Most of the time nothing showed up, but when I was lucky enough to catch a train, it made all the wai... (more)

Two former NS SD60s wait for another coal train to shove up or down the Secondary.

Two blue SD60s rumble south with a manifest in the fading light of the day.

A Watco GP39-2 switches at Nitro on the KNWA.

WAMX 4211 and KN 381 knock down the signal at Bannon on their way into Columbus.

With shadows growing long on a perfect Spring evening, two leased SD60s shove a coal train over the West Virginia Secondary.

WAMX 4211 leads KN 381 west over Alum Creek and towards Norfolk Southern's Watkins Yard.

WAMX 4211 leads Kanawha River Railroad's 381 along the West Virginia Secondary and towards the diamond at Bannon.

The rain has finally let up as the Nitro Local, KN40 assists Columbus to Dickinson train KN-380 with sorting & switching of cars for local industries. Two rebuilt GP39V's of GM&O and Western Mary... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad's Columbus to Dickinson freight KN-380 pulls into Nitro Yard on a rainy March afternoon to sort & switch cars for delivery to the Kanawha Valley, as well as drop off cars fo... (more)

A year and a day after Norfolk Southern ran their last train over the West Virginia Secondary, two leased NS SD60s fittingly led KNWA 381 north. Here we see the train skirting the Hocking River in... (more)

Local power for the Kanawha River Railroad out of Dickinson sits quietly on an unseasonably warm and overcast January afternoon. With no work on this Saturday afternoon, the power will wait for t... (more)

The year 2016 has been quite a roller-coaster ride for fans of the former NYC West Virginia Secondary between Columbus, OH and near Summerville, WV via Athens, Point Pleasant, and Charleston. To k... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad/WATCO SD40M-2's 4221 and 4211, both rebuilt ex-Southern Pacific SD45's sit at the south end of Dickinson Yard in Quincy, awaiting their next road assignment. In the backgro... (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)