U 813 leaves the Keyser Yard headed east with eighty or so hoppers of West Vriginia coal. The older bridge in the photo will be replaced with a new one, which is what the new steel is for.

This loaded coal train is parked in the Keyser Yard waiting for crew. I believe it to be an NS train, with a New Jersey destination. The long string of aluminum hoppers caught my eye. It's 7:30 AM... (more)

This loaded coal train rests on a freight track as it awaits crew for a trip up to the big Mt Storm power plant. The cars seem to trail off to infinity.

The engines made it thru the switch, which leads me to think something broke as the first hopper refused to follow. Early morning trouble for the trainmaster, as the engines are on 2 west freight... (more)

Q 316 has to pickup nine cars off this spur and add them to it's consist. The engines are moving forward after the conductor has tied down the necessary cars and uncoupled.

This train has come down 17 Mile Grade loaded, and is parked at the Keyser Yard. If you look close at the first loaded hopper, you can see it's hooked up to yard air. Later, two engines will be p... (more)

538 on Q316 waits for her conductor to tie down the required number of cars so that the locomotives can cut from their train and pickup the cars on the spur, which 2629 has just left there.2629 ha... (more)

Empties, lead by 477 and 4741, the only EMD of eight engines seen in this photo, are westbound for more WVa coal. On the left are two loaded trains waiting to make the trip up the old WM Thomas Su... (more)

A quartet of engines muscle road freight Q317 into the town of Keyser, just south of the West Virginia/Maryland border, the Allegheny Mountains looming in the background.

A pair of SD70MAC's lead an empty hopper train over the B&O's West End.

Unwashed 5001, one of the rare "Diversity" units, looks pretty tired here, at the head of 80 or so loads of eastbound coal. However, the 5001 has just come out of storage just weeks ago, and was c... (more)

361, a helper on a Mt Storm coal haul casts a reflection on an aluminum hopper as a string of empties zips by it on their way up the mountain for more coal.

Record snowfall and highwinds have made lots of work in the West Virginia mountains for this Jordan Spreader. Two AC44's should supply plenty of horsepower for the job.

While on a project at West Keyser tower with HABS/HAER, I was able to catch veteran operator Tom Hartman throwing the Armstrong levers. Since the image the tower was razed and Tom retired.

It's 2004, and a new SD70Mac helper set, 4813 and 4816 rest in the helper pocket at West Keyser. Later they will lead 10,000 tons of coal to Mt Storm, WVA.