Chessie 614 struts out of Thurmond, WV with the Chessie Safety Express after a photo run by. The train had begun the day at Cliftion Forge, VA.

Two Crane Masters employees work on cutting and dismantling the classic signal at Thurmond.

The classic scene at Thurmond that hundreds of thousands of tourists and railfans alike have photographed over the years is no more. Monday morning the power was cut as Cranemasters got ready and ... (more)

A Frog's view. With a derailment down near the New River Gorge Bridge, traffic has stalled in Thurmond. A loaded coal train on RJ Corman's West Virginia Line is tied down and a CSX coal train has ... (more)

With a derailment down near the New River Gorge Bridge, a short work train crawls past the Thurmond Depot. News reports would reveal that a grain hopper picked a switch sending two hoppers over th... (more)

A morning eastbound passes endangered C&O sentinels as it disturbs the quiet of Thurmond, WV. Soon, another relic of Thurmond will be gone forever.

A nice duo of YN2 dash-8s take Richmond to Cincinnati manifest Q303 west through Thurmond on a beautiful summer evening. The depot, restored and run by the park's service, can be seen on the right... (more)

A once thriving town on the banks of the New River in southern West Virginia, Thurmond, in its heyday, was known as 'The Heart of the New River Gorge'. While most of the original infrastructure in... (more)

A view from above as CSX SD50 #8616 leads work train W043 through Thurmond, WV at the end of the work day.

An empty hopper train idles in front of the old Thurmond depot and semaphore while waiting for a work train to clear up. The train was stopped a few miles back after a defect detector caught the l... (more)

A coal train splits the once bustling railroad town of Thurmond, now a popular tourist attraction in the heart of the New River Gorge. The old C&O cantilever, coaling tower, and abandoned downtown... (more)

Hopper train E511-03 holds at Thurmond to meet a work train after checking out a defect on their 150th car. The detector east of Thurmond caught them, so knowing the territory, I highballed to a C... (more)

Coal drag U276-03 works hard upgrade at Thurmond, passing the 1922 coaling tower, C&O signal cantilever, and downtown main street area. Though Thurmond is now maintained by the National Park Servi... (more)

A coal train is parked on the siding at Rush Run as humid evening set in along the New River at Thurmond. The dispatcher has just lined up an eastbound coal train at Thurmond after a westbound emp... (more)

An eastbound CSX manifest lights up the clear indication at the east end of Thrumond.