After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)

End of Track - the sign says it all! The once busy Alma Branch to the Sprouse Creek prep plant is now just a stub off the Pokey mainline and has been removed beyond the grade crossing ahead as nat... (more)

Eastbound NS 740, with an SD70ACC rebuild leader, passes the site of the 826 derailment from May 2020 at Sprigg, WV. Almost 2 years later and not much had changed at the derailment site, which res... (more)

Westbound 41N passes through Sprigg, passing by the remnants of the derailment from last May that took the crossover out of service.

Aftermath of 824’s derailment at Sprigg this afternoon, stacking up 10 or so export coal hoppers.

An all EMD lashup on 52E, with the Reading Heritage SD70ACe on point, passes through Sprigg, and the farthest West CPL signal left on the N&W mainline.

98R sits tied down on the Alma Branch at Sprigg, next to the Tug Valley Country Club Golf Course. Once a busy coal branch back in its prime, now the Alma Branch is used solely for storage of coal ... (more)

217 passes Westbound through Sprigg with the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit on point.

A colorful power consist leads M89 Westbound through Sprigg on a warm August afternoon.

With the Jersey Central Heritage Unit leading the way, 218 passes eastbound through Sprigg, passing the CPL governing the interlocking. These CPL signals have been endangered for quite some time n... (more)

Old meets new at Sprigg... Illuminated by a full moon, two N&W CPL's stand against their replacements at CP Sprigg on the night of August 27th, 2015. Now, the CPL's have been replaced and new sign... (more)

Coal loads roll Eastbound through Sprigg with an SD70M-2 in the lead.

217 passes through Sprigg with a UP SD70ACe leading an ex-UP SD90MAC.

Westbound 17M passes through Sprigg, which has been overtaken by kudzu in the area on the West side of the road crossing.

Sign of the times at Sprigg. 217 passes through as an installation on a new safetran signal has taken place this afternoon, as another set of N&W Style CPL signal's days become numbered.