Kanawha River Railroad hauls the equipment flats for the circus last visit into Charleston.

A Southern Pacific-painted AC4400 and a UP motor lead an overpowered transfer job back south to Nitro from the Point Pleasant interchange on Norfolk Southern's West Virginia Secondary. A few weeks... (more)

One of the last Norfolk Southern-operated local freight jobs returns to NS' Dickinson Yard on the West Virginia Secondary near Charleston. In the coming days, NS power would be moved out of the Se... (more)

Led by a trio of EMD locomotives, NS 381, operating as train No. 610 follows the Kanawha River north toward the W.Va./Ohio border on its final run across the railroad's ex-Conrail West Virginia Se... (more)

Rolling through Winfield, NS 381, operating as NS No. 610 makes a final jaunt over NS' ex-Conrail West Virginia Secondary. Soon, 100 miles of this original NYC route will be idled as NS concentrat... (more)

The end of an era... The final NS 381, operating as NS train No. 610 rolls through Poca, northbound on NS' West Virginia Secondary. Soon, this route will be shuttered as NS looks to consoli... (more)

The end of an era... The final NS 381, operating as NS train No. 610 makes its final northbound pickup in the small industrial yard of Nitro on the ex-Conrail West Virginia Secondary. As th... (more)

Springtime in West Virginia! A colorful pair of foreign road locomotives lead five RBBB stock cars north on NS' West Virginia Secondary near Belle, W.Va. on April 26, 2015.

Departing Norfolk Southern's small yard in Dickinson, about 25 miles south of Charleston, CSX ES44AC No. 948 and CITX SD70ACe No. 141 take five RBBB animal cars north to Charleston for loading in ... (more)

Coupling onto four RBBB stock cars, CITX EMD SD70ACe No. 141 slows to a stop on the south edge of Norfolk Southern's Dickinson Yard near Charleston. After a quick power runaround and brake test, t... (more)

A pair of colorful visitors to the West Virginia Secondary ease past a cut of loaded coal hoppers in the Dickinson Yard. The CSX/CITX duo will couple onto the Ringling Bros. Blue Unit train for it... (more)

A western visitor spends a foggy and humid night unassigned in Norfolk Southern's Dickinson Yard, about 25 miles south of Charleston. After daybreak, the KCS" Southern Belle" EMD SD70ACe... (more)

The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey load the passenger cars in downtown Charleston.

After loading at Quincy, the Virginian heritage SD70ACe sits tied down in the yard at Alloy on the head end of 100 loads of coal for Roanoke. In a few short hours, the train will be ascending the ... (more)

"You oughta charge those photographers", an exchange of communication occurs between the crew on NS 380 and Nitro's local crew as NS' Pennsylvania Railroad ES44AC No. 8102 adds some col... (more)