Scenes from the Cowen Sub as A&O local Z830 takes 36 cars of freight to interchange with CSX at Grafton.

A&O’s QD job departs Buckhannon and heads east to Grafton lite power, passing the B&O intermediate signals on the northeast side of town. The signal is lit up, but the harsh evening sun makes it... (more)

A&O At Night. The Appalachian and Ohio Railroad operates 158 miles of rail lines between Grafton and Cowen, West Virginia that were once the Cowen and Pickens Subdivisions of the Baltimore ... (more)

A pair of ex SP GP40-2 rebuilt to GP38-2's await for their next assignment.

Four A&O GP 38-2's throttle up as the lead Carter Roag loads back to Grafton on the Pickens Sub.

A four pack of A&O's ex-SSW GP38-2 rebuilds await their next assignment at the Sentinel Mine.

A&O 3808 leads 80 empty coal hoppers across the Pleasent Creek Bridge.

With 80 empty coal hoppers in tow, three GP 38’s lug it’s train up grade just outside of Grafton bound for Carter Roag Mine.

Deep in the heart of Appalachia a pair of ex B&O CPL's stand guard as a pair of veteran A&O GP38s bring a ballast train east of the Berryburg Junction on the CSX Cowan sub. The red RJ corman balla... (more)

The A&O Grafton turn departs the trans load in Buckhannon.

With empty boxcars headed for Flatwoods to be loaded with lumber, the A&O Flatwoods turn breaks the silence in the small unincorporated community of Gem.

13.4 miles left to Berkeley Run Junction, and three A&O geeps are hauling 80 loads of coal past the intermediate signals in Phillipi. This line is the last place to find B&O CPLs in West Virginia,... (more)

Do you think they lose cable every time a train passes? I'd live there anyway, gladly! Three A&O geeps arrive in Alexander to pick up 80 cars of West Virginia coal from the Beech Mountain.

A&O train Z812-26 is navigating alongside the Tygart Valley River in Philippi enroute to load 80 cars of export coal.

If you blinked, you missed this one. CSX leased its Cowen and Pickens Subdivisions west of Grafton to Watco, operating as the Appalachian & Ohio Railroad. This was a pretty significant acquisiti... (more)