In-between clouds, a pair of Kanawha River Railroad geeps bask in the evening sun in the railroad's Dickinson Yard near Charleston.

There's few places, if any, outside of the Northeast Corridor where one can stand near a rail yard and be surrounded by several cuts of passenger cars from various heritages. As a fleet of more th... (more)

Local power for the Kanawha River Railroad out of Dickinson sits quietly on an unseasonably warm and overcast January afternoon. With no work on this Saturday afternoon, the power will wait for t... (more)

On lease to Watco's Kanawha River Railroad, NS EMD SD60 No. 6602 sits along WAMX EMD GP35 No. 3921 in Dickinson Yard. The SD60 was built for NS in in 1985 while the four axle Geep was built for th... (more)

A pair of Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35s lead a short local into Dickinson Yard after returning north from near Alloy.

Arriving in Dickinson Yard with a few outbound cars, Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35 No. 3921 and its crew pass a few idling locomotives on the former NS Dickinson Yard pit.

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)

2 units sit on the fuel pad at Dickinson on a quiet Sunday Morning on the new Kanawha River Railroad.

Take what you can get

Rumors had been circulating for months as Norfolk Southern has been looking to trim unused rail lines due to a fatally ill coal market. As such, the northern ... (more)

With rumors circulating that Norfolk Southern was to idle the West Virginia Secondary (Ex-NYC) line after the first of the year, the wife and I decided to take a road trip down the line today. Co... (more)

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)

NS 7577 slowly moves East as a empty coal train is loaded at the loader in Dickinson, Wv.