Cumberland to Cincinnati manifest Q317-23 slides by on the triple track section of track between Big Sandy Junction and Clyffeside heading for their last stop of Russell Yard before continuing wes... (more)

Heading downgrade on their run from Kingsport, Tennessee to Shelby, Kentucky, northbound mixed freight Q697-28 crosses Copper Creek trestle just outside of Clinchport, VA. Time freight has returne... (more)

CSX 411 leads the empty trash train up the 1% grade between Meads Station and Summit on the former Lexington Subdivision to Winchester. This operation was in it's waning days at this point, as af... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad train KN-37 rolls across Sweeneyburg Trestle near Beckley on the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater line with an ex-EJ&E SD38-2 and two FRA track geometry cars, DOTX 218 a... (more)

Westbound Amtrak "Cardinal" train P051-05 with AMTK P42DC #1 on the point and the usual consist of new baggage car, two sleepers, diner, and 3 coaches, slows down to cross the Big Sandy ... (more)

As the sun fades away, eastbound grain G708-05 with two sharp SD60's including a rare three-window"Triclops" and a Dash 8 in the freshly-painted "Boxcar" scheme pulls into Russ... (more)

Tied down in front of the Huntington Amtrak Station, a leased FURX Geep and two SD40-2's wait for a new crew to finish their work between Huntington and Russell for the night.

Norfolk Southern Eastbound UPS trailer/doublestack train 218 with the NS 1069 "Virginian" Heritage unit makes it's way eastbound on the NS Kenova District towards Linwood, NC, where it will change... (more)

Tier 4 GEVO #3258 and it's Tier 3 counterpart bring 100 loads of South Carolina PSD coal off the east end of the double track at WD Cabin, while a late-season thunderstorm brews in the background.

Former VRE, now SunCoke GP40PH-2 #413 leads a cut of loaded coal cars from the interchange yard with CSX at Ceredo, splitting the towns of Ceredo and Kenova in two for a short time while they mane... (more)

NS local U91 rolls across the Slab Fork trestle with three GE motors at the point, rolling along the Princeton-Deepwater District from Deepwater to Elmore Yard. With the announcement that the lin... (more)

The year 2016 has been quite a roller-coaster ride for fans of the former NYC West Virginia Secondary between Columbus, OH and near Summerville, WV via Athens, Point Pleasant, and Charleston. To k... (more)

After inquiring what all the "little flashing red dots" (my flashes) were for, the property owner watches as CSX K440-22 with a pair of Canadian National locomotives crosses the C&O Ohio... (more)

LORAM RGS-7 and RGS-8 have just tied down at the west end of the Westward Siding in St. Albans on a chilly November night. The two rail switch grinders are linked together as part of an experimen... (more)

With 6,800 horsepower and three gondolas from Kentucky Electric Steel, the only other customer on the remnants of the former C&O Lexington Subdivision, local Y156-15 waits for their turn to "... (more)