If there was a way to punctuate my experience on the Pocahontas District on the last day of 2015, this was the perfect way to do so. Here, an NS manifest desperately climbs up the grade at Kyle, W... (more)

Eastbound Coal Train at Martinsburg WV

The West Absolute Signals show a double-clear in Hurricane as a thunderstorm moves in from the west during an early July evening.

188 rolls Eastbound across the giant trestle spanning the City of Kenova and the Ohio River.

Eastbound lite power is mere milliseconds away from crossing back into the state of West Virginia at Flat Top, passing a packed Flat Top Yard loaded with processed black diamonds. Normally this p... (more)

The "lesser known" end of the railroad.. For the first time in over a year, the string of autorack cars stored on the Bluestone Branch near Coopers, WV has an End of Train device ... (more)

The only westbound in a sea of eastbounds on this gorgeous September afternoon, hotshot intermodal 217 is crawling upgrade across the infamous Coopers Trestle on the NS Pocahontas Division. As so... (more)

Racks meet racks

Eastbound rack train 272 darts out of Coopers Tunnel just a few short miles from the once busy yard at Bluefield, passing train 83K and their train of previously sto... (more)

The weekend before Labor Day found this GSF GP38-2 hostling a work train into the small yard at Kenova, WV during a pleasantly warm afternoon on ex-N&W Pocahontas Division.

A short Eastbound work train rolls through Borderland behind a freshly repainted Dash 9 and a new ET44AC.

A colorful power consist leads M89 Westbound through Sprigg on a warm August afternoon.

The Sun's last rays of light shine on the Ridge Road crossing gate protecting the CSX Cumberland Sub as Norfolk Southern empty hopper train 777 heads north passing over the ex B&O mainline below.

This is a classic scene as CSX Q249 exits the Harpers Ferry Tunnel and drifts across the Potomac River. The sound of the horn echoing off the mountains, the rush of the water below and the locomo... (more)

Kenova to Williamson local J14 pulls 100 loads of Morrison Knudson (according to reporting marks) from the SunCoke/KRT railyard on the banks of the Ohio River and splits traffic on US Route 60 on ... (more)

Welcome to West Virginia, Watco! After more than 200 days of re-routing freight traffic via Norfolk Southerns in southern West Virginia, Watco's new Kanawha River Railroad returned freight ... (more)