Timeless.. A full moon has just dipped below the horizon and the eastern skies are beginning to show some color during this brief period after moonset and before sunrise. A star filled sky and com... (more)

Empties for Russell have just left Hinton, following the banks of the New River west through the Sandstone Falls. Appropriately titled the "New River Subdivision", this empty coal drag will hug th... (more)

The valley of Quinnimont, deep in the New River Gorge sets covered in a blanket of snow after the first snowfall of 2012 and essentially the winter season left its foot print in the mountains of W... (more)

Westbound empties have nearly completed the uphill climb to Alleghany Summit, near the control point of E.E. Alleghany. With a full moon high in the sky, the west portal of the Lewis Tunnel is ill... (more)

With a built day of November of 2011, a pair of CSX's newest GE ES44AC's lead a Cross, SC destined coal drag south through Fort Blackmore on the former Clinchfield mainline shortly after dusk. The... (more)

It's 8:16 pm in the still valley of Brounland as an eastbound Elk Run empty train rounds the bend, casting a silhouette on the remaining foliage. The near full moon is peaking through the increasi... (more)

Fall peak in Rainelle. With NF&G empties winding their way over the scenic NF&G, this unique aerial perspective captures this years impressive fall color.

Fall in the Pocahontas coalfields! With colors the best they've been in years, a loaded eastbound coal drag negotiates the scenic Pokey district near Glen Alum.

The milky way over Copper Creek.. It's a dark night in the Clinchport Valley as a sky full of stars silhouette the impressive Copper Creek Viaduct.

With storms building to the west, the last glow of the evening begins to dissipates as an eastbound priority train glides through Mesita.

It's 6:18 am in the Hawks Nest Gorge as westbound coal empties work their way through Ansted and points west during a beautiful morning glow.

It's the first night of Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities as a pair of Amtrak heritage locomotives idle on a private varnish train from Chicago. Thunderstorms developed quickly this evening a... (more)

A thunderstorm in the C&O coalfields.. Displaying a stop signal at Indian, a bolt of lighting from an approaching storm cell lights up the night time sky.

Full moon at Hawks Nest.. With some clouds associated with a storm front moving to the east, an eastbound streaks his way through the New River Gorge.

Bound for Brunswick, an eastbound loaded autorack train out of Cumberland passes under a vintage B&O CPL signal bridge at Grasshopper, west of Hancock. The B&O CPL's were recently removed on the M... (more)