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Most of the Appalachian & Ohio's motive power consists of leased GMTX GPs, as evident in this July 2017 view of the inbound mixed freight passing an additional set of light GMTX units waiting for ... (more)

A former Penn Central GP38 leads the Appalachian & Ohio's local freight into CSX's Grafton yard in July 2017. B&O's iconic D Tower was torn down in late 2017.

Empty hoppers on their way back to the mines roll west out of the Baltimore & Ohio's yard at Grafton, WV, on a summer afternoon, behind an F7/SD9/GP9 lashup.

CSXT 54 rests in the Grafton, W.Va., engine terminal near D Tower.

Grafton is transitioning to the CSX era

This is Coal Country! CSX 291 digs in for the long climb up Sand Patch as it departs Grafton, West Virginia.

A road-weary CSX AC4400 rolls past the former Baltimore & Ohio depot and the remains of the Willard Hotel in downtown Grafton, both of which were constructed in 1912. The Mountain Sub, which conne... (more)

CSX AC4400 391 is departing Grafton, West Virginia, on the old B&O main line to Cumberland, Maryland. This is now CSXT's Mountain Sub, which has been in operation since 1852.

Possibly the shortest chapter in Grafton, WV's railroad history is Watco's Appalachian & Ohio RR, which lasted barely over a year after a lease from CSX. The railroad used worn out ex UP/MP SD50s... (more)

A pair of Kansas City Southern EMD SD70ACe's idle in the Grafton terminal after performing some testing over the intimidating grades of the former B&O Mountain Subdivision.

The beginning of the CSXT's Mountain Sub starts here at the terminal at Grafton. Once a B&O busy mainline, now services for a major coal terminal for the CSXT. The 4 GATX geeps are the power of t... (more)

Q316 creeps past D Tower, the fuel pad, and the former B&O Station at Grafton with the usual assortment of random power.