Coupled to an empty hopper car from the Heiners facility in West Huntington, CSX H796-05 prepares to shove back to the end of the West Huntington Belt Line to pick up another empty car before head... (more)

Coupled to a string of black diamonds from Norfolk Southern's Kenova "New Yard" interchange, two of the former Canadian National GP40-2LW's sporting the new SunCoke Energy scheme utilize all 6000 ... (more)

Under clear blue skies, eastbound train 40W passes under the former coaling tower at Prichard with a string of fresh rail for the under-construction intermodal facility to the left.

With a fresh recrew out of Russell, eastbound manifest Q698-15 heads south on the Big Sandy Subdivision, passing the northbound C&O era mast signal at WD Cabin just south of Catlettsburg.

Eastbound with another cut of loaded trash hoppers from the Northeast, CSX local Y206-15 passes under the last remaining C&O signal bridge on the Kanawha Subdivision between Russell and Montgomery... (more)

After sitting in the yard in Huntington for the holiday season, the Loram switch grinder is back to work on the Huntington Division. After taking on water at Big Sandy Junction with the assistanc... (more)

Once a very busy junction at the meeting point of the Ashland Freight Main, the Ashland Passenger Main, and the C&O Lexington Subdivision, the C&O era signal bridge still stands guard for trains o... (more)

Today's Huntington-Russell local heads back into Russell Yard with CSX 4421 running long hood forward up the Old Yard Lead, passing the dwarf signal coming off the River Lead eastbound.

Rushing out of Tunnel 3 at Grey Eagle, just north of Kermit, NS 234 with a KCS SD70ACe in tow, leads a convoy of three eastbound trains on the Kenova District towards Williamson and points east.

NS 272, with UP SD70M #4373 and CN SD70M-2 #8883, hustle a very short train of autoracks out of the east end of Tunnel 3 at Grey Eagle. Riding the signals behind NS 234 and NS 18M, the train will... (more)

Shoving back on the main with 5 NS Top Gon hoppers from Nitro Yard, the Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit is the sole power on Dickinson-bound train 380 on a chilly December afternoon.

CSX unit grain train G656-29 sits tied down at the Big Sandy Holdout, aka Floodwall. With 30 minutes of time left, the crew is told to tie the train down, as Russell Yard was full and the tracks ... (more)

CSX local H796-28 pulls out of SunCoke's Ceredo Yard smoking up a storm with 39 empty hoppers heading for Huntington Yard as they race CSX K080-24 bound for Yorktown, VA passing the signals at Spr... (more)

CSX coal train N928-18 with loaded GGPX hoppers heads west towards Russell, KY passing the former 34th Street Yard in Ashland, now used by AK Steel as a staging yard for coke hoppers and by Progre... (more)

Norfolk Southern train J14, one of numerous Kenova District locals, works on assembling a train of empty coal hoppers pulled from the SunCoke Energy (formerly KRT) Ceredo Docks in nearby Ceredo, W... (more)