DB's roll through the once thriving coal community of Stonecoal on NS's Kenova Division in Wayne County West Virginia.

Still sporting its Canadian Pacific colors, NREX 1287 is a long way from home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

About as wide open as it gets in these parts, NS 8918 negotiates the tight curve at OO. Heres's where the Buchanan Branch (elevated line in the background) diverges from the Pocahontas Main Line. ... (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.

A peek behind the curtain, which is used by the Russian owned Mechel Bluestone Coal Company in downtown Keystone WV to shield the citizens from dust and to look a little more aesthetically pleasin... (more)

Hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit, these AC units appear to be earning their keep performing pusher duty on the western side of the infamous Elkhorn Grade in Southern West Virginia. The gr... (more)

NS 52Q, with Dash 8 with brake stick wedged, awaits pushers under the old coaling tower that harks back to days when steam was king on the ole N&W...

On top of the Pokey, Dash 9 straddles the slide detector fence as it exits Elkhorn Tunnel enroute west to Welch.

On a gorgeous fall afternoon is southern West Virginia, Interstate Heritage Unit 8105 is found performing pusher duty on the Pokey.

Dash 8 leads the parade with the Reading Line Heritage unit in tow down the Elkhorn Grade through its namesake.

Doublestacks roll by a still in use caboose along the Pokey near Vulcan in literally the last light of day.

Heavy duty power rolls down the Pokey by the remnants of the CWC enroute to Williamson. Note the still standing brick supports under the large rock that is still intact after what appears to have ... (more)

Dash 8 rolls by the wye at the terminus of the Gilbert Branch and Pocahontas Division on a beautiful fall afternoon at Wharncliffe.

With what appears to be a fresh coat of paint , and a bad stencil job, SD70MAC enroute to Brunswick crosses over the Altamaha River and under the still standing massive drawbridge through the rema... (more)

CSX 3006 with coal drag in tow, and adorned with the latest logo, has just begun its journey through the Nolichucky Gorge. Located on the North Carolina/Tennessee border, the Nolichucky (and also ... (more)