#301 ( former Rio Grande) and #305 on switching duty at Rook Yard.

It seems that every regional railroad has at least one engine on the roster that looks like hell. On the W&LE, that engine is the 300, which wears an unusual patch job over its Union Pacific live... (more)

Late afternoon seems to be a good time to find activity at Rook. Here, a crew gets ready to switch with the 300 and 303 while the 108 and three other units look on.

Making its way through the countryside between Rook and Mingo Jct., 213 heads west as evening shadows creep across the track.

On my way home from photographing a track meet, I stopped by Rook to see what might be in the yard. In a case of perfect timing, I had just turned down Hawthorne Ave. when the W&LE dispatcher gav... (more)

The trees in Western Pennsylvania are still barren, but the W&LE brightens up the landscape with this westbound freight.

Watch over the Wheeling! Lets hope the Wheeling continues to enjoy success and provide color variety to the NS & CSX show in Northern Ohio. Here a long KL82 has two motors up front followed by abo... (more)

One of the best Wheeling lashups I've ever seen makes its way across the truss bridge in Morgan. 3073 is trailed by the 3048, 5413, and the 105.

After waiting about an hour and a half for traffic to clear up on CSX's Greenwich Subdivision, the CSX "IG" dispatcher finally gives a signal to W&LE 389 with an ex-D&RGW tunnel motor leader and a... (more)

The Wheeling train to Toledo running as NS KL81 has just flown over the NS Chicago mainline and is seen here in its entirety heading North to Toledo.

The local has exchanged one flatcar for seven hoppers and is now working upgrade on the Mat branch. In a couple of miles the branch will be at the same height as the main and this train will pull... (more)

Eastbound 610 crosses the Parkway West on the ex-P&WV mainline. The lower level bridge carried the West End Branch to an interchange with CSX near the West End Circle.

A Hagerstown grain train crosses Mingo Creek Viaduct as the hillside was being transformed for the construction of the Mon-Fayette Expressway.