Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

The first measurable snowfall of the 2021-2022 winter season blankets West Virginia on the 6th day of January as a monster 220-car coal drag eases into river bend, illuminating the seldom photogra... (more)

CSX EMD SD40-3 rebuild No. 4060 skirts along the Ohio River in a brutally cold snow squall on the evening of January 14, 2018. The empty coal train is following the former C&O mainline west toward... (more)

Rainy days on Cabin Creek Series... A dismal day consisting of rain and wet snow sets the mood as CSXT ES44AH No. 3147 leads a unit train of empty coal hoppers across the former C&O Cabin C... (more)

Built as GE AC4400CW No. 205, CSX-rebuilt AC44CM No. 7225 is the solo head-end leader of a unit coal train from the mines of eastern Kentucky, seen here eastbound through Marmet, W.Va., on CSX's e... (more)

Approaching the pure-B&O interlocking at South Deshler, CSXT CW44AC No. 46 leads a manifest freight across CSX's ex-B&O Toledo Subdivision in Deshler, Ohio.

CSXT CW44AC No. 493 exits the only tunnel on RJ Corman's Loup Creek Branch with a cut of loaded coal cars for the CSXT-Corman interchange at Thurmond. This area of the New River Gorge is notorious... (more)

Westbound coal empties round the bend at Alleghany, Va., silhouetting Chesapeake & Ohio's 'A' Cabin westbound on the mainline to Hinton. Soon, the 150-car empty train will enter Alleghany Tunnel, ... (more)

Westbound approaches Thurmond..... Coal empties for southern West Virginia ease into Thurmond, silhouetting the Chesapeake & Ohio depot and a bad order hopper car. Soon to be greeted by a c... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors are at a crawl of less than 1 MPH as they pull 10 loads of export coal out of the Pax loadout, uphill toward Mount Ho... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of run-through CSXT CW44ACs enter the only tunnel on R.J. Corman's former C&O Loup Creek Branch near Mount Hope. The two CSX locomotives are retur... (more)

Good Morning Big Boy No. 4014... Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 double-head west across the Overland Route near Granger at sunrise on May 6, 2019.

With low fog and a full moon silhouetting the Norfolk & Western coaling tower at Farm, an eastbound grain train waits to pull east with a leased Progress Rail ex-Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC in... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 catches this late summer sunset outside of La Junta, Colo., on its eastward journey across the original Santa Fe mainline toward Dodge City, Kan., a... (more)

A westbound empty grain train rolls across the Norfolk & Western mainline through far southern West Virginia under the cover of darkness. Heavy rains and humid nights have created for a foggy jour... (more)