Norfolk Southern job U86 passes through the small West Virginian town of Sophia only a mile out of the Affinity Loadout with a long string of loaded coal hoppers beginning its trek south on the Wi... (more)

Popping out of Sophia Tunnel on the rarely shot Winding Gulf Branch, NS U87 continues it's trip to Affinity Coal Company. There the power on the loaded Herzog ballast train will run about the trai... (more)

Affinity Mine run U94 is making all of 10 miles per hour up the 2% grade of the Winding Gulf Branch at Loop Junction, just over the hill from Sophia, WV and United Coal Company's Affinity Mine nea... (more)

Beckley Coal Series In a continue series that highlights some of the obscure rail lines around Beckley, we find ourselves on Norfolk Southern's former Virginian Railway Winding Gulf Branch ... (more)