A grain train rounds steep bend at MP 436 along the Pokey. The fall colors are starting to show after a long indian summer.

Showing its age, this SD70 still sounds sweet out in the wilds of the Tug Valley Fork.

Workers splice together two more sections of welded ribbon rail as it feeds out for miles along the Pokey. This area suffers fast wear on the iron due to heavy coal tonnage and extreme curvature.

A ribbon rail train lays out welded rail, sandwiched between the bluffs of War Eagle and the Tug Fork river on the state line. The extreme curves of this remote and rugged area cause heavy wear on... (more)

You better have your earplugs in as these engines work against the curves that make up the Pokey.

A lone SD 70 passes the MP 437 marker as it delivers these mtys to Williamson.

Coal drag 820 gains on 93 cars just loaded at Mingo Logan coming off the Gilbert Branch in a race east. The old signals are quickly being replaced along this remote and hard to access stretch of t... (more)

Coal drag 81M rounds a curve in the Tug Fork valley and runs into a patch of late evening sun on the Pokey.

Towering cliffs and an old N&W CPLs are commomplace along this remote but scenic stretch of the Pokey. Sadly, These signals are slowly being replaced.

A leased UP unit passes the slide fences that protect the track from the towering bluffs above at it leads a string of MTYs back to the Williamson yard.

At dusk, a NS autorack roars by War Eagle and the slide fences at 7:04 PM on a chilly evening on the Pocahontas.

Bluefield Bound coal drag is shadowing the slide detector fence on its way east.