A conveniently placed full moon rises over the Mt. Laurel surface mine just as a pair of GE widecabs ease around its empty hoppers before beginning the flood loading process in this lonesome south... (more)

Inspecting the track for visual obstructions prior to beginning the flood-loading process as a reverse move, a pair of GE widecabs ease around the tail end of the Coal River Subdivision and the Mt... (more)

Light power inspects the tail end of the Mt. Laurel spur near the end of the Coal River Subdivision at Sharples. Once the track has been visually inspected by the crew, the locomotives pictured he... (more)

Hanging onto the last few days of summer as CSX GE AC440CW No. 160 marshals empty hoppers toward the Mt. Laurel loadout near Sharples, W.Va., on Sept. 18, 2021.

Summer kudzu is in full force as Mt. Laurel empties ease onto the mine's yard tracks at the end of the Coal River Subdivision at Sharples, W.Va., on Sept. 18, 2021.

Veteran GE AC4400CW No. 160 eases into the rural mining town of Sharples at the tail end of the original C&O Railway's Coal River Subdivision - about 55 miles from the mainline at St. Albans. Afte... (more)

Coal empties head for the Mt. Laurel Mining Complex at Sharples, W.Va., passing the outskirts of Madison after having just departed CSX's Danville Yard in the former C&O coalfields of southern Wes... (more)

Tied down in the Westward Siding west of St. Albans, a Loram-operated ballast cleaner is silhouetted by the headlights of a westbound empty coal train on the heels of Amtrak's Cardinal No. ... (more)

Solitary anticipation... Lined for the main at Ranger Siding, the eastbound C&O pole signal at E.E. Ranger displays a clear signal, indicating that the siding's spring switch is lined for m... (more)

Nestled deep in the bottom of the Guyandotte River valley at Ranger Siding- the halfway point between Logan's Peach Creek Yard and the C&O mainline at Barboursville, is a pair of C&O-era signals p... (more)

There's not a single railcar moving on the 65-mile Logan Subdivision, but deep in the fog-covered Guyandotte River valley at the branch line's halfway point at Ranger Siding, a C&O-era signal guar... (more)

This late summer evening in September finds an empty train for Peach Creek rolling through the signals and spring switch at E.E. Ranger on CSX's former C&O Logan Subdivision. Ranger is the occasio... (more)

Easing into the outskirts of Peach Creek, CSX U902 passes the eastbound signal at Henlawson with its 224-car consist for the Logan coalfields. Here, westbound counterparts are guided by a unique a... (more)

Under heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, CSX ES44AC No. 903 passes the westbound signals at the W.E. Babe Siding, protected by a pair of C&O mast signals and a single dwarf on a sidin... (more)

After assembling its train in nearby Ceredo on the Kanawha mainline, CSX ES44AC No. 903 eases into the interlocking at East End Double Track, better known as EEDT, or the Milepost 3.6, on the rail... (more)