On Independence Day 2016, the local citizens of St. Albans let off a few fireworks as a westbound empty coal train slides into the East End of St. Albans on main two. On main one, an eastbound tra... (more)

A very clean 8561 leads a trio of Chessie power kicking up the snow as it hustles an eastbound freight through St. Albans, WV. 8561 was delivered new less than a year prior to this photo.

A former MARC commuter rail engine rebuilt to serve as CSX's Geometry train power leads the CSX W002 through downtown St. Albans during a muggy July 8 morning.

Dashing through the snow... It looking back on 2016, it didn't take long for the New Year to make an impressing when West Virginia received its biggest snowstorm in my lifetime during Jan. 22-23. ... (more)

LORAM RGS-7 and RGS-8 have just tied down at the west end of the Westward Siding in St. Albans on a chilly November night. The two rail switch grinders are linked together as part of an experimen... (more)

A man and his kids wave at the engineer of the eastbound New River Train as the 30-car consist slows down for a station stop at the restored St. Albans passenger depot. This is the second of four... (more)

With the 50th running of the annual New River Train Excursions approaching this weekend, private passenger cars from all across the country continue to ferry in to the once bustling railroad town ... (more)

Kicking the snow up from the 4th street grade crossing in St. Albans, WV, CSX intermodal train Q135 heads towards Russell, KY during Winter Storm Jonas.

Dashing through the Snow, Scene Two
CSXT 4545 busts up a snow drift on the tracks while passing through St. Albans on the point of Q135, the westbound stacks train from Clifton ... (more)

Dashing through the Snow
CSXT 143 makes a scene as it crosses one of grade crossing in St. Albans, WV on day two of Winter Storm Jonas. Only priority freights were running on th... (more)

The biggest storm since '95...That's what the locals are saying anyway... With more than 18" of fresh powder blanketing the C&O mainline, high priority CSX Q136 tunnels through snow drifts from Wi... (more)

The biggest storm since '95...That's what the locals are saying anyway... With more than 18" of fresh powder blanketing the C&O mainline, high priority CSX Q135 tunnels through snow dr... (more)

Those U30C's sure could smoke! Or maybe it's the Lima 2-8-4 that's on the next track.

Thunderstorms dance around the Kanawha River valley painting the sky and highlighting unique low hanging cloud structure during an unusual nighttime August thunderstorm.

After bringing coal empties from Newport News to the coalfields of rural Elk Run, three locomotives run light by the St. Albans Depot, westbound on the C&O main. A BNSF visitor to these parts is a... (more)