Passing old warehouse buildings, Norfolk Southern #8044 thunders through the town of Welch, WV on January 28, 2021 as it continues west through the mountains of West Virginia.

An empty set of coal hoppers awaits a refill outside of Eckman, WV as Norfolk Southern #8044 passes under the signals at the west end of the yard on January 28, 2021 along the former Norfolk & Wes... (more)

"West to Williamson!": Norfolk Southern #8044, after a brief crew change, charges west into the Pocahontas Division and the coal fields of West Virginia with its manifest train on Januar... (more)

Norfolk Southern #8044 arrives in Bluefield, WV on January 28, 2021 with its manifest freight train. It's all downhill from here for #8044 as it continues west as shown by the grade profile in the... (more)

The flashing crossing signals along State Road 679 provide a splash of color in the winter wonderland outside of Narrows, VA on January 28, 2021 as Norfolk Southern #8044 thunders west to Bluefiel... (more)

With some nice morning light breaking through the clouds, Norfolk Southern #8044 rounds the bend to cross over the East River near Ingleside, WV on January 28, 2021 on the western end of NS' Chris... (more)

Norfolk Southern ES44AC #8044 and its manifest freight train head west to Bluefield, West Virginia on the snowy morning of January 28, 2021 outside of Narrows, VA.

Cresting Elkhorn Grade, Norfolk Southern #4135 and #1079 cross Cooper's Trestle near Bramwell, WV on January 16, 2021. The bridge passing below the enormous steel and concrete Norfolk & Western st... (more)

The thunderous sound of NS #4135 and #1079 in notch 8 fills the valley outside of Elkhorn, WV on January 16, 2021. The mountains are so steep in this location all of the sound from loaded eastboun... (more)

A friendly engineer greets the photographer near Vivian, WV on January 16, 2021 as NS #4077 is shoving hard together two other units on the rear of our loaded ethanol train. Lots of traffic on thi... (more)

As NS #4384 continued west with its empty coal train on January 16, 2021 multiple eastbounds awaited their turn at Capels, WV. One of them, a loaded ethanol train lead by NS #4135, departed Capels... (more)

Moving steadily along, NS #4384 continues west with its empty coal train along US 52, Coal Heritage Road, near Superior, WV on January 16, 2021. About 5 minutes before the train arrived, the weath... (more)

Green signals ahead at CP Falls Mills for our same trio of pushers as they head east to Bluefield, WV on January 16, 2021.

Continuing west of Bluefield, the action on the Pocahontas Division continues at Falls Mills, VA. Here, SD70ACe #1051 is greeted to a classic smalltown scene as it leads two other units east to Bl... (more)

After NS #8018 arrived into town NS #8147, also an ES44AC unit, departed east out of Bluefield enroute for Roanoke on January 16, 2021. With its snow capped coal train #8147 should have no issue l... (more)