The NS Lehigh Valley heritage unit brings up the rear DPU of loaded coal train 80W as it climbs the grade out of Gilbert, West Virginia following the Gilbert Creek Valley. The Hampden Coal Company... (more)

American Consolidated Natural Rescoures Incorporated’s Harrison County mine is loading 115 cars of coal for export. Here we see train B816-22 in the process of pulling ahead to the next empty ca... (more)

Big Blue in the Blue Ridge At one point in time, a mighty operation that loaded daily. Now, traffic is sparse and they only see a few trains a month. Way back in the corner of Pike County, Kybe... (more)

A small derailment that crashed into the CSX power at Sentinel mine leaves most important no injuries, however some track damage and damage to the Locomotive. It appears a car had picked the switc... (more)

It's a typical foggy fall morning in the Appalachia's as WCCX 7 sits rotting outside of the load out it once served, Wellmore Coal.

The now idled Hogg Loadout on The CSX Whitesburg Branch at Roxana has seen better days. This loader is now owned by Kingdom Coal and hasn't loaded a train in over a year. The cars on the other tra... (more)

Having just shoved their second cut of empties through the loadout at Creech, C633 waits for shift change at the mine before loading the cars. The clouds are catching light from the sunset happeni... (more)

A cut of empties are shoved from Hazard Yard, to The Bluegrass loadout which is within a mile from the yard itself. Due to the fact the branch dead ends at the loadout and limited room to run the... (more)

After loading 50 system hoppers full of coal at Coronado Coal's Anjean loadout, H801-09 begins the trek back down to Rainelle on the former Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway, where a second c... (more)

A pair of Monongahela Super Sevens brings another train of empty hoppers into Wana Junction, West Virginia.

Pulling a train of new Conrail bathtub hoppers, three Monongahela Super Sevens approach Wana Junction, West Virginia.

After decades of hauling coal from countless mines with diesels in drab black paint, The Monongahela Railway lightened up its paint scheme when it revamped its roster with eleven remanufactured fo... (more)

Former N&W SD40 1592, leads a westbound pusher set across Coopers Trestle, passing an eastbound coal train. The trestle on the lower right is on the Bluestone Branch Line.

A depressing sight at this once thriving coal loadout, as CSX coal gons rust away.

With a long train of Wisconsin Electric Power hoppers, one Chicago & North Western and two CSX EMD’s roll through the hilly farmland at Buzz, Pennsylvania. The two CSX/one CNW power combination... (more)