One of the best Wheeling lashups I've ever seen makes its way across the truss bridge in Morgan. 3073 is trailed by the 3048, 5413, and the 105.
The local has exchanged one flatcar for seven hoppers and is now working upgrade on the Mat branch. In a couple of miles the branch will be at the same height as the main and this train will pull... (more)
A very short W&LE local rolls high above the Mon, with a loaded flatcar for Monessen. The truss bridge at right is Interstate 70.
Special delivery! The Wheeling brings one giant load of spools into Monessen on the Mat Branch. The bridge in the background crosses the Monongahela River, it took this train about one hour to g... (more)
Photographing one train on the east end of the W&LE is a good day, catching two in the same afternoon is a rarity. Less than two hours after a local freight passed through, a westbound empty hopp... (more)
As tall as this bridge is, the structure's apparent size is diminished by the even taller Joe Montana Bridges on the Mon Fayette Expressway.
High above the valley and NS's Ellsworth Secondary, a W&LE local heads for Rook with seven cars from Monessen.
The east end of the W&LE has been very busy lately, as coke and ore trains have been interchanged with CSX in Connellsville. A westbound empty hopper train is seen here, a few miles east of Sudan... (more)
The moon rises above WE #305, westbound at Gastonville. In the background is the Mon Fayette Expressway, which roughly parallels the W&LE in this area.
A W&W geep and slug take a break at Gore, they'll be there until the railroad resumes operations, after Christmas.
One of several units parked outside the road's shop in Gore, W&W #445 is at rest on a quiet Christmas Eve.
An empty coal train slowly accelerates past P871 and approaches venerable WB Tower.
P871 meets a hi-rail truck as he makes his last station stop in Brunswick.
Brunswick lost some of its character as a railroad town when the B&O roundhouse was demolished in the 90's, but two classic structures remain today - the station at left and WB Tower in the center... (more)
One unit wonder Q139 slips through Brunswick, en route to Cleveland with a container train from Portsmouth, VA.
