A nice pair of spartan cab locomotives, one GE and one EMD, lead autorack train 272 past one of the many N&W CPL's on this line. Just behind me, the train will duck into Roderfield tunnel.

The westbound control signal for the crossovers at Roderfield are lined up for a lite power move. These ex-N&W CPL's signals are hit and miss on the Pocahontas District. Roderfield is located at M... (more)

Emerging from Vaughn Tunnel, westbound grain empties approach the interlocking at Roderfield, enroute to Williamson from Bluefield along NS' busy Pocahontas District.

A loaded coal train pounds the eastbound as they past thru the crossovers at Roderfield at MP 412. One end of Roderfield still has one set of the classic ex-N&W CPL's signals. This train has 2 man... (more)

SD70ACE rolls out of Vaughn Tunnel into daylight enroute to Williamson with a loaded coal drag thats just rolled off the Tug River Branch, once home to US Steel.

NS Heritage N&W 8103 paired with PRR 8102 assists a coal train at Vaughn Tunnel on the former Norfolk & Western Pocahontas District.

A single SD40-2 waits for a signal before heading east for work at Kingston.

A pusher set creeps out of the tunnel and across the trestle to get behind a underpowered grain train.

An EB stack train rumbles out of Laurel Tunnel, and across the Tug Fork River near Roderfield just before midnight. Special thanks to Sean Hoyden for the lighting, and to Sandra, the landowner fo... (more)

Former Southern Railway high hood SD40-2 NS 3261 sits on what is left of the former N&W Spice Creek Branch, now just a MoW siding in Roderfield, WV with a short work train.

NS ES44AC 8052 and another AC unit shoving hard as a helper on a mixed freight through Vaughan Tunnel near Roderfield, WV headed towards Bluefield. This unit is one of the 20 or so on the last GE ... (more)

NS SD70 2579 leads a mixed freight out of Vaughan tunnel in Roderfield, WV. I met fellow RailPictures contributor J.B. Lockard here and had a nice conversation with him before heading off to the n... (more)

A spartan cab leads a train out of Vaughn Tunnel and past the classic CPL's.

An old Southern high hood is being used on this M.O.W. train parked along the old Spice Creek Branch at Roderfield.