The conductor of CSX H701 is lining the VACO Jct. switch for the C&O side. Shortly, this 8-car local will reverse caboose-first down the steep Vaco Branch before returning to the CSXT main at Deep... (more)

After trading empties for loads, the South Charleston-based Gauley Trolley is headed back to the C&O at Deepwater, spanning a small Virginian-built trestle on its approach to VACO Junction,... (more)

Reversing across the Deepwater Bridge spanning the Kanawha River, CSX H701, the Gauley Trolley is caboose-first, enroute to WV Manufacturing with empty covered hoppers. In a span of 1 mile,... (more)

Built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, this 46-year-old GP40-2 ascends the Vaco Branch from the C&O to the Virginian Railway main at Deepwater. The South Charleston-based local is operating on W... (more)

Enroute to WV Manufacturing at Alloy via CSX-KNWA trackage rights, the Gauley Trolley passes through Eagle, just east of Montgomery, during the onset of spring color. The GP38-2/GP40-2 duo ... (more)

A formed Seaboard Coast Line GP38-2 leads Sunday's Gauley Trolley eastbound along the Kanawha River at East Bank, sporting back-to-back conventional cabs, a caboose, and empty hoppers for A... (more)

Former NS EMD SD60 No. 6602, converted to WAMX No. 6000 for use on the Kanawha River Railroad's coal service, rests in the railroad's Dickinson Yard in a sea of storage and manifest cars on the ev... (more)

Built as GE AC4400CW No. 205, CSX-rebuilt AC44CM No. 7225 is the solo head-end leader of a unit coal train from the mines of eastern Kentucky, seen here eastbound through Marmet, W.Va., on CSX's e... (more)

Cabooses are still earning their keep in Class I local service in West Virginia as CSXT Operation Red Block caboose No. 16640 brings up the rear of Sunday's Gauley Trolley as it arrives bac... (more)

Bright future under dark skies... CSX YN2-painted GP40-2 No. 4419 enters South Charleston yard limits on a restricting signal after exchanging loaded covered hoppers for empties at West Virginia M... (more)

Passing through West Virginia's capitol city and the Charleston Amtrak station, CSX H701, known locally as the Gauley Trolley, rolls along the Kanawha River with empty covered hoppers from Alloy. ... (more)

CSX's Gauley Trolley under the alias of H701 returns west through Montgomery, W.Va., after switching West Virginia Manufacturing's Alloy, W.Va., plant on Watco trackage rights. Spring is in... (more)

Built in May 1978 for Conrail, this 43-year-old EMD GP40-2 continues to wear CSX's ever increasingly rare "Bright Future" YN2 paint scheme as it lays over in the railroad's former C&O ya... (more)

A trip of GEs, led by BNSF ES44DC No. 7644 lead an eastbound rack train through the late evening sun, approaching West Crookton on the Santa Fe Seligman Subdivision on April 5, 2019.

With 110 loads of coal for Tidewater export, NS DC-to-AC conversion AC44C6M No. 4039 eases across the Virginian Railway-built trestle at Sweeneysburg. 110 cars back, a quartet of Watco-owned SD60s... (more)