The James River is high and muddy after yet another round of heavy rain in the southeast. A coal train heads across and is about to pass through the narrow ridge and cross the river again behind t... (more)

The Birchwood Coal train heads towards the mainline to reach the coal mines of West Virginia.

Pulling a cut of 100 empties out of Birchwood, U161 is just a few hours from going on the law as they make the grueling 10mph trek out the Sealston to the RF&P main.

Lee Freyer and crew eases down toward the first leg of the Hagan Switchback.

A slug set and another pair of units for local power sit at the C&O Sandy Hook Yard near the coaling tower as another yard job toils on with an SD50-3 for power.

The slug is a former B&O GP3... (more)

After getting fuel and a recrew, T200 leaves Clifton Forge as it passes the C&O Railway Heritage Center on a cold winter afternoon.

Winter storm Helena has dumped around six inches of snow in the James River valley as T200 crosses the James River with a train of black diamonds headed east.

CSX Conductor Freyer has just give a big wave as they have passed by the Cane Creek road crossing on their way to assist a loaded northbound coal train in Pennington Gap.

Twice Blessed.....The rear pushers on the very long westbound autorack, Q261 pass the head end of eastbound manifest Q394 in near perfect autumnal light. The empty autorack was about 10,000 feet ... (more)

C821-27 CSX 807 holds back the T795-26 with big mac 4808 leading down the grade into the tail track at Hagan as the 807 will become the head end of the train for the next movement thru the switchb... (more)

A rare sight. After working the only mainline switchback in America, two former Conrail Dash 8-40CW's scream as they get put into notch-7 and then 8, in order to get 15,000 + tons of coal movin... (more)

The CSX 454 "Spirit of Magnolia" is seen backing empty coal gons passed loaded NS coal gons at Turner's Siding, VA toward Lone Mountain Processing for loading after they have dropped off... (more)

Q141 flies over the Mattaponi River on a Hot July Afternoon, Too bad the river was too low for swimming!

The loaded Benedict train is about to congest traffic in downtown Pennington Gap on Morgan Avenue at dusk on the longest day of the year and the 1st day of summer.