College/work/etc. entailed weekend/holiday trips. Charge in, get shots and as Ryan Ballard said "friendly wave and a hardy hi yo silver". We we found these, but they were dead on the w... (more)

Bound for interchange to Conrail in West Brownsville, a coal train led by two Monongahela Super 7-23B’s crosses the trestle in Pine Bank, Pennsylvania.

Two Monongahela Super7-23B’s take a trainload of coal from Federal #2 mine through Bula, West Virginia.

A Monongahela Railway train consigned to Wisconsin Electric begins flood loading at Consolidated Coal’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia.

Monongahela's No.1216 Class DFA-8A was a 1600hp RF-16 "Sharknose" built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1951 for the New York Central. MRY's 1216 was former NYC 1216, nee NYC 3816. Photo... (more)

A Monongahela Super 7-23B and two Conrail SD40-2’s pull Somerset coal out of the MGA’s Waynesburg & Southern tunnel at White Cottage, Pennsylvania. The last mine on the W&S shut down recently,... (more)

With a trainload of coal bound for the Somerset Power Plant, a Monongahela Super 7-23B pilots two Conrail SD40-2’s on the MGA’s Waynesburg & Southern branch at Buzz, Pennsylvania..

Two Monongahela Railway Super 7’s pull a train of coal from Federal #2 mine through Bula, West Virginia. This is at the extreme far end of the Waynesburg Southern line from West Brownsville.

A Wisconsin Electric coal train travels down the Wana Branch of the Monongahela Railway in Wana West Virginia. Most of the train is still across the state line in Pennsylvania.

On the Monongahela’s Waynesburg & Southern branch, the two landmark trestles at Buzz and Pine Bank, Pennsylvania didn’t escape many photographers who visited the line. Here a train destined to... (more)

With each of its cars half-loaded with coal from Consolidated Coal’s Bailey Mine. a Monongahela Railway train crosses the trestle at Pine Bank, Pennsylvania. After the cars are topped off at the... (more)

A Monongahela caboose punctuates a coal drag that has just cleared the White Cottage tunnel on the Waynesburg Southern branch. By this time, cabooses were quickly becoming a rarity.

Four Monongahela Super 7-23B’s lead a northbound train of coal from Consolidated Coal Company’s Blacksville Number 2 mine cross the trestle at Buzz, Pennsylvania.

Four Monongahela Super 7’s follow the banks of Tom’s Run at Pine Bank, Pennsylvania.

”You Guys Have Lunch Ready? We’re coming by!”

I’m sure that the days of warm meal preparation in the caboose was long past, but this would have been the perfect opportunity... (more)