With 110 loads of coal for Tidewater export, NS DC-to-AC conversion AC44C6M No. 4039 eases across the Virginian Railway-built trestle at Sweeneysburg. 110 cars back, a quartet of Watco-owned SD60s... (more)

With 28 coal loads for the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, a pair of GATX-leased GP38-2s exit Winifrede and ease into the Kanawha Valley. The Watco train crew has spent the last two days loading cu... (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)

Signs of an early spring are increasingly noticeable in this late March 2020 view of Kanawha River Railroad freight KN 380 at Hometown, W.Va. A mild winter and early spring has led to a premature ... (more)

Early signs of spring are noticeable in the river valleys of West Virginia as outbound Kanawha River Railroad freight KN 380 rolls through Buffalo with two EMD SD40-2Ms.

Climbing of the dip near Arbuckle, KN 30 and its EMD SD40-2M duo lead manifest cars south on the Kanawha River Railroad to Dickinson Yard.

Early signs of spring and a pair of matching Watco black-and-yellow EMD SD40-2Ms add a splash of color to this southeast Ohio scene. Soon, this Kanawha River Railroad manifest will cross the Ohio ... (more)

How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)

A freshly rebuilt CSXT AC4400CW, now re-classified as a GE AC4400CM, leads CSX H751 west along the swollen Kanawha River at Eagle - just west of Mount Carbon on its run along the former C&O mainli... (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)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 leads UP 844 toward Ogden, UT, exiting a pair of mainline tunnels just east of Morgan, Utah.

The Little Kanawha River Railroad's SW1200 duo pose in the evening light on the south side of Parkersburg. This obscure short line railroad uses former B&O tracks to serve industrial customers alo... (more)