Affinity Mine run U94 is making all of 10 miles per hour up the 2% grade of the Winding Gulf Branch at Loop Junction, just over the hill from Sophia, WV and United Coal Company's Affinity Mine nea... (more)

In the last minutes of a clear October evening, westbound hopper train 66V dashes through the town of Ironton with the Norfolk Southern "Honoring First Responders" heritage unit at the lead, the f... (more)

The first train to traverse the Piney Creek Sub since a rock slide forced the closure of the west end of Raleigh Yard is halfway through the 1.5 trip on the New River Sub main from Quinnimont to P... (more)

Amtrak's tri-weekly Cardinal begins their night run across the C&O from Huntington towards Indianapolis, and on to Chicago, with a fresh crew and the usual 7-car consist. Next stop: Ashland, KY, ... (more)

Foreign power pulls a cut of West Virginia black diamonds from the loadout at Sylvester and ties down in the yard at Elk Run Junction on CSX's Big Coal Subdivision for the night. Soon, a road cre... (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.

Fresh from the General Electric shops, Tier 4 Evolution unit 3258 gets a hard break-in hauling 100 loads of South Carolina PSA off the mainline at Catlettsburg for a 125-mile jog down the ex-C&O B... (more)

CSX manifest Q634-04 makes a late night departure from Russell, heading up the Northern Subdivision with a quartet of BNSF GE units pulled off of a pair of eastbound oil trains leading the way.

Local J13 brings 110 empty coal hoppers from SunCoke's Ceredo Docks down Track 3 of Kenova Yard, heading for the mainline for a trip down to Williamson. With the idling of the mine at East Lynn, ... (more)

NS 188 rolls across the 102-year-old N&W Ohio River Bridge into West Virginia during a beautiful August sunset.

Tucked away on a dead end spur off the KRT connection track behind a tie crane, former Duluth Missabe & Iron Ridge SD38AC (one of only 15 ever built), now belonging to Rail Trusts Equipment, has f... (more)

Mine run U05 hustles up the 22-mile long Wolf Creek Branch with a clean standard cab Dash 9 at the point, passing the south end of the siding at McClure, KY. While Norfolk & Western CPL's have al... (more)

Flashback to the mid 20th Century.

With the Amtrak Exhibit train dead in tow mid-train, the westbound Cardinal slows down for their first stop for a quick crew change, before mov... (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)

Passing the last all-C&O interlocking between Russell and Montgomery, an eastbound grain train begins their trek east across the Kanawha Subdivision on a cloudy July morning.