Ethanol empties for Chicago head for Russell, Ky., from Hinton, W.Va., under the guidance of former Clinchfield Railroad SD40 No. 3016. It's good to see a near-50-year-old SD40-2 doing head-end ho... (more)

A freshly rebuilt CSXT AC4400CW, now re-classified as a GE AC4400CM, leads CSX H751 west along the swollen Kanawha River at Eagle - just west of Mount Carbon on its run along the former C&O mainli... (more)

Westbound approaches Thurmond..... Coal empties for southern West Virginia ease into Thurmond, silhouetting the Chesapeake & Ohio depot and a bad order hopper car. Soon to be greeted by a c... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors are at a crawl of less than 1 MPH as they pull 10 loads of export coal out of the Pax loadout, uphill toward Mount Ho... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 leads UP 844 toward Ogden, UT, exiting a pair of mainline tunnels just east of Morgan, Utah.

Exchanging loads for empties.. The Kanawha Eagle shifter navigates the ex-Winifrede Railroad yard tracks in Chesapeake after spotting outbound loads. Soon, the GP38-2s will grab ahold of another s... (more)

Two GATX Rail-leased GP38-2s bring a load of 25 coal hoppers through Winifrede proper, nearly halfway between the Kanawha Eagle loadout and the staging yard in Chesapeake, WV. As soon as the loads... (more)

Two EMD GP38-2s navigate Winifrede hollow with 25 coal loads for the CSXT interchange at Chesapeake. After loading the unit train in multiple cuts and delivering to the small Winifrede Yard, a CSX... (more)

After flood loading 25 coal hoppers, a pair of GATX Rail-leased EMD GP38-2s depart Kanawha Eagle Mine as they navigate Winifrede's yard tracks on the return trip to the CSXT interchange at Chesape... (more)

Two EMD GP38-2s with Midwestern roots have found a new purpose serving Blackhawk Mining's Kanawha Eagle Mine on the former Winifrede Railroad. Here, the two leased motors haul the first cut of 27 ... (more)

The Little Kanawha River Railroad's SW1200 duo pose in the evening light on the south side of Parkersburg. This obscure short line railroad uses former B&O tracks to serve industrial customers alo... (more)

Rebuilt SD40-3 No. 4067 leads four other standard cab EMDs toward Parkersburg along the Ohio, framed by First Energy's Pleasant Power Station in the background.

Under the guidance of five standard cab EMD locomotives, CSX Q317 navigates the original B&O street running in downtown St. Marys on New Year's Day. The consist is led by three West Virginia-rebui... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of run-through CSXT CW44ACs enter the only tunnel on R.J. Corman's former C&O Loup Creek Branch near Mount Hope. The two CSX locomotives are retur... (more)

Richmond-Russell manifest CSXT H751 meets eastbound grain loads in downtown Montgomery during a torrential downpour. Unconventionally, a YN2-painted SD40-2 has the honors of leading this day's man... (more)