South Branch Valley GP9R no. 92 leads the railroad's Chessie-painted GP9, no. 6240, and a short train northward between Romney and Green Spring, West Virginia. The state-owned railroad is best kno... (more)

A westbound CSX empty hopper train passes the east siding switch at Burnsville, West Virginia, just before sunset in October 2004. The train is destined for a coal mine near Cowen, West Virginia, ... (more)

An eastbound CSX coal drag curves through the color position light signals at Amblersburg, West Virginia, at dawn on a foggy autumn morning. The 80-car train is entering the heart of Cranberry Gra... (more)

An Appalachian & Ohio empty hopper train, led by three ex-Union Pacific SD50s, heads west over the Pleasant Creek Viaduct on a foggy late summer morning in northern West Virginia. Railroad: Appalachian & Ohio Railroad
Locomotive: EMD SD50
Location: Pleasant Creek, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: WAMX 5120
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 05, 2005

An eastbound CSX coal drag nears the summit of Newburg Grade at Tunnelton, West Virginia, in the last light of a September evening. The two AC4400s on the point are assisted by two helpers on the ... (more)

CSX's Sewell Valley Shifter eases downgrade past Meadow Creek Falls with 34 loads of coal to drop off in the small yard at Meadow Creek, West Virginia, junction with the New River Subdivision main... (more)

An eastbound CSX loaded coal train passes a billboard in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, promoting the train's cargo.

West Virginia Southern SW14 #1442 approaches Mt. Hope, West Virginia, with three loads of pulpwood from the CSX interchange at Thurmond. The train is passing the abutments of an abandoned rail lin... (more)

West Virginia Southern's lone unit, SW14 #1442, struggles up the two percent grade along Dunloup Creek out of Thurmond, West Virginia, on a dreary January day with maximum tonnage: three loads of ... (more)

A loaded coal train pulls onto CSX's New River Subdivision mainline in Thurmond, West Virginia, still under the controls of a crew from R.J. Corman, which loaded the train at the Pioneer Fuel Co. ... (more)

CSX's Quinnimont-Thurmond local train pauses on the single track mainline behind Thurmond's abandoned business district on a rainy October night. The train is waiting for a signal from the AM Disp... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal, train no. 50, arrives for a flagstop at Thurmond, West Virginia, in the heart of the New River Gorge.

Conductor Jeff Conrad assembles his train, an eastbound loaded coal drag, in the yard at Cowen, West Virginia. The train was loaded at Evergreen Mine's flood loader in Cowen and is destined for a ... (more)

A westbound CSX empty hopper train crosses Pleasant Creek, seven miles out of Grafton, West Virginia, en route to the Brooks Run mine on the Cowen Subdivision, while clouds streak by in the moonli... (more)

Agent Marvin Plumley checks paperwork for Amtrak's Cardinal at the ticket window in Prince, West Virginia. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway opened the Art Deco station in 1946 to serve nearby ... (more)