CSX coal empties thunder by the Amtrak station at Prince just after sunset

Norfolk Southern train 27A (Rutherford, PA-Atlanta, GA manifest) makes its daily trip over the Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia.

All is exceptionally quiet on CSX's ex-C&O coalfields, but a clear signal at the W.E. Coal River Siding indicates that will soon change as a 220-car coal train makes its way to the mainline at St.... (more)

In the winter's fading daylight, a 220-car empty coal train passes a community church along Stovers Branch, near Orgas, in January 2022.

A heavy wet snow blankets the otherwise bare trees in the Coal River Valley at Brounland, as four GEs and 220-cars head for Elk Run's Marfork mine for another load of West Virginia metallurgical c... (more)

A 19-year-old Dash 8 has the honors of chaperoning an empty coal train west along the Kanawha River and the West Virginia Turnpike at Malden in the late summer of 2011.

A pair of GE's lead a Norfolk Southern intermodal train as it heads east on the Kenova District through the valley of the Big Sandy River, catching the last few seconds of golden light north of Pr... (more)

Then symbolled Norfolk Southern train 228 (Harrisburg, PA-Norfolk, VA intermodal) crosses the Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia southbound on the NS Hagerstown District. Since then, 2... (more)

First morning light hits the bridge over the Big Sandy River as CSX E014 rolls across the state line into Kenova, West Virginia. This empty coal train will head down the Logan Sub in Barboursville... (more)

The setting sun casts long shadows over Kenova, West Virginia as CSX L212 heads west behind an SD70MACe leader on an October afternoon. The train had picked up a block of cars from Huntington, inc... (more)

The Durbin & Greenbrier Number 6, known as the Durbin Rocket, has pulled up to the station in Durbin to board passengers for the 10:00 am departure.

Norfolk Southern grain train 34W heads down the Kenova District as it passes the coal loadout of the Big Sandy Terminal Inc. in Dock Creek West Virginia, south of Kenova. Now a shell of its once b... (more)

NS AC44C6M 4312 catches an opening in the shadows as it leads a loaded coal train south on the Kenova District, passing under the color light signals at milepost 28 south of Saltpetre, West Virgin... (more)

Norfolk Southern loaded grain train 40N emerges from the morning fog and into the sunshine as it heads east through Cyrus, West Virginia on the Kenova District. BNSF and KCS power leads the train ... (more)

CSX GP40-2 6145 leads R207 as it crosses over the Mud River and Route 60 in Barboursville, West Virginia with 5 empty gondolas in tow. These cars are bound for the CSX Bridgeworks that is located ... (more)