Chessie System caboose 904107 still doing duty on a work train tied up at the Lafollette station.
A closeup study of a leased SD40-2 freshly painted with a bevy of horns on top. The MOW train is preparing a backup as a track worker checks out the Tug Fork in the distance.
With a nice crisp paintjob, worktrain 98J backs onto the west leg of the wye at Wharncliffe, clearing the Pokey main for oncoming coal traffic. Spring has just tinted the beautiful hills along the... (more)
NS 218 hustles past the old restored Matewan depot on a cool April night.
Worktrain 97J and caboose on the Pokey main. The clam bucket is used for everything from cut brush to ties to cleaning out the ditches along the ROW.
Backing up to clear the main, 97J and a friendly brakeman prepares to cross the defect detector on the way to Glen Alum. Common to find a caboose on the Pokey most any day.
Coal drag 820 gains on 93 cars just loaded at Mingo Logan coming off the Gilbert Branch in a race east. The old signals are quickly being replaced along this remote and hard to access stretch of t... (more)
With a friendly wave from the cab, mine run U23 from Bens Creek splits the signals and hits Pokey Main #2. U23 will soon be overtaken by coal drag 820, both headed east side by side in a race to I... (more)
Coal drag 81M rounds a curve in the Tug Fork valley and runs into a patch of late evening sun on the Pokey.
Timed freight 274 enters downtown Matewan between the huge floodwalls erected around the low lying city.
Coal drag N252 comes up a short swag after traversing Duff Mountain grade. A helper unit is on the other end, still shoving.
Mine run U07 crawls up the Lenore Branch to the Island Creek 25 loadout in a scene representative of the coalfields....trucks and coal trains.
NS 147 shuffles west on Main Two with the Buchanan Branch running to the right beyond Main Two. The redbuds and dogwoods are just starting to show their color on the Pokey.
Crew readies to depart the east leg of the wye at Wharncliffe, having just cleared Jerry on the Gilbert Branch with loads from Bens Creek.
Westbound 147 shuffles along the rock bluffs of the Pokey and by a sea of spring color with the redbuds in full bloom.
