Coal train 83N departs Gilbert Yard with a loaded coal train for Bluefield, passing over Gilbert Creek west of town. At the rear of the loaded train shoving is NS EMD SD70ACe 1141 as well as DC t... (more)

If you're looking for a place to relax and watch trains go by, the railroad town of Russell has plenty of attractions on site for the railfan at heart. Along with the restored passenger depot & i... (more)

Riding on it's home rails, the Norfolk & Western Heritage Unit leads a westbound rack train on the Big Sandy Extension of the Kenova District past the coal transloader at SunCoke Energy's Docks Cr... (more)

Several lines of CSX locomotives, the majority of them being standard cab Dash 8's as well as a few widecabs & EMD switchers, sit silent in the manifest yard at the recently downgraded Russell Yar... (more)

Phoenixes of the Thoroughbred

Eastbound coal train NS 776 darts through the quiet town of Prichard, West Virginia, crossing over Elijah Creek with two of Norfolk Southern's newest re... (more)

With loaded scrap gondolas in tow, a former B&O GP40 converted to road slug use leads Russell to Huntington local H702 under the NS Ohio River Bridge at Kenova as the sun continues to fade behind ... (more)

Relaxing in the shade of a cool September evening, two of the mainstay wide cab Geeps donning the SunCoke orange-on-black scheme are coupled to a cut of Duke Power Company hoppers awaiting to be t... (more)

The headlights of NS 234 light up the rails of the double track Kenova District Mainline as the hotshot doublestacker passes SunCoke's KRT Docks Creek transloading facility at a blistering 40 mile... (more)

Cumberland to Cincinnati manifest Q317-23 slides by on the triple track section of track between Big Sandy Junction and Clyffeside heading for their last stop of Russell Yard before continuing wes... (more)

Two hundred loads of coal are slowing to a 10 mile per hour crawl at RB Cabin near Louisa, passing the abandoned tunnel of the original Chatteroi Railroad to which the CSX (ex-C&O) Big Sandy Subdi... (more)

Two veteran CSX SD70MAC's are chugging along with 130 hoppers in tow bound for the coalfields of southeastern KY. At right, the American Electric Power Big Sandy Generating Station, at one time a... (more)

A minute after this shot was taken, Kanawha River Railroad's Dickinson to Columbus manifest 381 is crossing the single track bridge from... (more)

Passing on the heritage

The 6th operator of the former NYC West Virginia Secondary from Alloy, WV to Columbus, Ohio the WATCO operated Kanawha River Railroad passes over the town of ... (more)

Recrewed at the yard a couple miles east of here, pushers for the Pokey operating as a J60 head west towards Farm to meet their next shove over the grade at Elkhorn. The tall mast CPL in the fore... (more)

Light power passes the bracket CPL for the control point at Flat Top, hidden in the woods nearly a quarter mile from Flat Top Yard. The location of this signal makes access nearly impossible (and... (more)