Westbound intermodal 29G passes the endangered CPL's at Bluefield, VA on their journey up the Pocahontas District. CPL's still dominate control of trains on the Pokey, with their replacements hav... (more)

After waiting on a light power move to pull into the yard, westbound intermodal 29G starts their journey up the Pocahontas District passing the junction of the Clinch Valley District at Bluefield,... (more)

Eastbound lite power is mere milliseconds away from crossing back into the state of West Virginia at Flat Top, passing a packed Flat Top Yard loaded with processed black diamonds. Normally this p... (more)

The "lesser known" end of the railroad.. For the first time in over a year, the string of autorack cars stored on the Bluestone Branch near Coopers, WV has an End of Train device ... (more)

The only westbound in a sea of eastbounds on this gorgeous September afternoon, hotshot intermodal 217 is crawling upgrade across the infamous Coopers Trestle on the NS Pocahontas Division. As so... (more)

Racks meet racks

Eastbound rack train 272 darts out of Coopers Tunnel just a few short miles from the once busy yard at Bluefield, passing train 83K and their train of previously sto... (more)

Kenova to Williamson local J14 pulls 100 loads of Morrison Knudson (according to reporting marks) from the SunCoke/KRT railyard on the banks of the Ohio River and splits traffic on US Route 60 on ... (more)

Cumberland to Cincinnati Q317-04 is westbound on the Kanawha Subdivision at Catlettsburg, passing through town on the triple track mainline with two ex-Conrail SD60Ms for power bound for a crew ch... (more)

A split train of coal cars and covered hoppers crosses the Ohio River Bridge at Kenova westbound towards Portsmouth in a rarely seen view of the 4100' long bridge from the South Point, or "No... (more)

The new kids in town

Two motors of WATCO's newest shortline, the Kanawha River Railroad, sit quiet in Nitro Yard (presumably assigned to the Nitro local) awaiting the next day's assi... (more)

9000 feet of B&O chemical and mixed freight roll across the Big Sandy River bridge on the Kanawha Subdivision at Catlettsburg heading towards Russell Yard to drop off cars before heading on to Que... (more)

With their work done for the day, two of the three GP40-2 widecabs at the KRT Ceredo Docks idle away as the rest of the miscellaneous units sit quietly in the background near the water tower. Wit... (more)

With recrew on board, westbound Q317 rolls toward Russell, where it will pick up and set off cars before heading westbound for Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati. The normally massive train looks like... (more)

Tied down east of the Route 2 crossing in Guyandotte, westbound manifest Q317 waits for a recrew, as well as a heat kink near the junction at Guyandotte to be repaired.

In the shade of a humid overcast evening, two Ferromex GEVO's are the power on the point of a hot hopper train zipping through Ironton at track speed bound for the yard at Portsmouth. In the back... (more)