A quartet of Watco-owned ex-Norfolk Southern EMD SD60s assist 96 loads of West Virginia coal across the Virginian Railway trestle at Slab Fork on the second day of spring. The early spring foliage... (more)

Built in late 2011 by Freight Car America, a loaded CSXT company hopper sits in the house track at Quinnimont, damaged from what appears to be the result of the June 2012 'Derecho' storm that was ... (more)

Approaching the end of the mainline at Greenwood, a pair of SD70MAC's and a string of empties ease across the coal truck entrance at Patriot's Lick mine. Coal is moved in many formats in the rural... (more)

Looking east at the west portal of the Coalridge Tunnel. Two tunnels can be photographed along the former New York Central Hitop Branch.

The milky way over Copper Creek.. It's a dark night in the Clinchport Valley as a sky full of stars silhouette the impressive Copper Creek Viaduct.

B&O CPL's in the weeds.. On the former B&O St. Louis mainline, a pair of B&O CPL's remain, east of downtown Parkersburg. These relics, increasingly rare on class one subdivisions are being reclaim... (more)

An assortment of locomotives, totally an impressive 10 EMD standard cabs idle at "Brooklyn Jct." on the B&O Ohio River Subdivision. Brooklyn Junction serves as the terminal for several turns that ... (more)

Steam returns to the Buchanan Branch... For the first time in over 55 years, steam returns to the N&W Buchanan Branch on the head end of an NS and TVRM sponsored public excursion. Enroute t... (more)

On its maiden run from the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer to the Roanoke Virginia Museum of Transportation, N&W J-Class No. 611 leads NS 957 through the community of Jamestown, N.C. northbo... (more)

Ascending Elkhorn grade on its crew run from Williamson to Bluefield, the Ringling Brothers Blue Unit circus train passes through the deplorable mining community of Keystone, nestled deep in West ... (more)

NS 961, a special deadhead operating from Muncie to Spencer, NC for Norfolk Southern's 'family portrait' makes its trek east across the former Southern Railway mainline at Newport, east of Knoxvil... (more)

Exchanging loads for empties.. The Kanawha Eagle shifter navigates the ex-Winifrede Railroad yard tracks in Chesapeake after spotting outbound loads. Soon, the GP38-2s will grab ahold of another s... (more)

An overview of Norfolk Southern's Williamson Yard and the western edge of its shop facility and former Norfolk & Western roundhouse. This large coal classification point was a critical link to the... (more)

Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

A string of nearly 20 SD40-2's eligible for the SD50-3 and now SD40-3 program set in storage along the Huntington lead of the CSX Huntington Locomotive Shops. By July of 2010, there would be nearl... (more)