At one of few places that nearly the entire consist of the mile long Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Blue Unit Circus Train can be seen, Kanawha River Railroad crew KN-35B roll across the Kan... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad crew KN-38 brings the Blue Unit Circus Train "Out Of This World" across Sweeneyburg Trestle, one of several large trestles spanning the valleys of the Paint Creek ... (more)

Under the cover of darkness, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Blue Unit Circus Train "Out Of This World" running as NS train 047 heads west on the Pocahontas District crossing... (more)

Eastbound Duke Power coal train T402-23 passes the idled Prater Creek Mine at Ivel, KY heading for Shelby Yard with 109 loaded coal cars. T402-23 is a test train heading for Duke Power's Cliffsid... (more)

Ugh, Mondays.. Crew from Norfolk Southern begin clearing out a heavy pile of debris from a rockslide across the Kenova District mainline just west of the signals at Falls Branch following a... (more)

Eastbound coal for the Belews Creek Steam Station in North Carolina heads around the curve at Kenova with a smoking ACe and GE Tier 4 motor for power.

Life is like a bunch of chocolates.. you never know what you're gonna get. The same can be said for a railroad hub such as Cincinnati, Ohio, where two Class I's, several shortlines and a sp... (more)

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)

Leaning into the tight curve just west of WD Cabin, export coal for Mexico running as a T999-01 are on the last leg of the journey on the Big Sandy Subdivision heading for Russell Yard on the Kana... (more)

Eastbound empties for the coalfields of eastern Kentucky near the town of Martin begin their journey down the Big Sandy Subdivision, passing the C&O era bracket signals at Calgon, milepost CMG 5.0... (more)

After loading at Highland Mining's Trace Fork surface mine near Holden, mine run H810-23 rolls into downtown Logan and on to Peach Creek Yard in Henlawson for the trip back to the mainline. Life i... (more)

A leased Citirail switcher works a cut of Norfolk Southern hoppers through the dumper at SunCoke Energy's Haverhill Coke facility on an unseasonably warm February afternoon. At one time, Haverhil... (more)

Nearing the end of the crew's run from Williamson, westbound manifest 17M passes underneath the ex-C&O Northern Subdivision and crosses the Little Scioto River slowing down for a crew change at St... (more)

NS mine run J22 with an oddball set of UP and KCS SD70 variants rolls under the cover of darkness through the town of Wayne, WV heading for Alpha Natural Resources' Rockspring Mine near East Lynn ... (more)