Not your typical day in South Yard...Amtrak's Phase I heritage P42DC No. 156 sits coupled up to a string of five private cars that help contribute to the New River Train's premium passenger... (more)

During its runaround move, Amtrak's Phase I heritage P42DC No. 156 performs a safety before coupling into the Georgia Railroad Dearing business car. After a brake test and a brief layover, ... (more)

The Collis P. Huntington 2015 New River Train idles in Hinton with three GE P42DCs on the head end. The train has just completed its run around move and after a brief layover for Hinton Railroad D... (more)

Beckley Coal Series In a continue series that highlights some of the obscure rail lines around Beckley, we find ourselves on Norfolk Southern's former Virginian Railway Winding Gulf Branch ... (more)

Beckley Coal Series: After bringing empties up the obscure Piney Creek Sub. from Quinnimont, CSX GE ES44AC No. 3175 crosses over Whitestick Creek with 75 empties for Crab Orchard mine. Desp... (more)

Eastbound grain loads gallop through the capital city in downtown Charleston, sporting a pair of brand new GE ET44AC locomotives on the head end.

After loading at Marfork Mine east of Elk Run, two CSX ES44ACs lead a train down CSX's obscure Big Coal Subdivision near the town of Comfort. The train is bound for the Ceredo Docks in West Virgin... (more)

Backwoods railroading! The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's flagship railroad, the Durbin Rocket in obscure Pocahontas County features a 5.5-mile tourist line on the former C&O Greenbr... (more)

Crossing into West Virginia from Ohio, NS 218 spans Kenova's Ohio River bridge on a pleasant fall evening in West Virginia's western most community.

Fall has come and gone awful early in the highest of elevations already. Remnants of Joaquin pulled winds and moisture out of the east into West Virginia's high mountain country this weekend. Toda... (more)

NS U85 spans Garwood trestle on a dreary September evening on the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District. The dismal weather conditions compliment the future of this line, as NS looks to a... (more)

NS 9422 leads NS 754 east on the VGN Princeton-Deepwater District at Oakdale, W.Va. on a rainy Saturday Sep. 26. While trains are not endangered, per se on this section of the VGN, the days of cap... (more)

Passing the Virginian-style searchlight signals at Algonquin, NS U86 will soon ease to a stop at Clarks Gap to cut off its rear end helpers. The Elmore based crew, which uses a combination of AC a... (more)

NS to mothball 50 miles of coal lines in West Virginia In a story that originated as a vicious rumor, but provided to be reality earlier this week, Norfolk Southern confirmed it would shift... (more)

Cass Heisler No. 6 deadheads to the Cass Shop after double-heading the 9-car Bald Knob Train hours before. Visitors who rode or recorded Cass Scenic Railroad trains on Sep. 19-20 were treated to a... (more)