Number 1 The Spirit Of West Virgina off Keyser Rd just outside of the Cumberland City Limits on the Mountain Sub

CSX E591 with CSX 1, Spirit of West Virginia idles at the Coal River bridge awaiting the slow clear signal to proceed up the Coal River Subdivision. Notice the missing numberboards.

The CSXT 1 leads very fast freight past the siding at Fairburn in some great looking afternoon light.

The Spirit of West Virginia leads a fast Q617 over HWY 29 as it heads towards Hogansville.

K185 is heading down the Toledo Terminal with ore loads as seen here from the relatively new Oregon Road overpass. To start off the new year, today's train has CSXT #1 on the point and sunshine ab... (more)

"The Spirit of West Virginia" is only a half-mile from cresting the grade at Alleghany. No pushers today, as 85 loads are no match for a pair of GE's on the .56% ruling grade.

"The Spirit of West Virginia" leading an eastbound train through its namesake. Very fitting.

CSXT 1, The Spirit of West Virginia, leads 9015, southbound on the Toledo Branch, at St. Rt. 795, heading for Columbus, on a hot and humid sunny morning.

CSXT 1 leads a SB train over the Ohio River fllood plain.

CSXT 1 has MTY's from Ashtabula Harbor in tow for Russell, KY. Within a few days the cars will be loaded with black diamonds and headed back to Lake Erie.

CSXT No. 1 leans through the curves at Shenandoah Junction with a westbound empty hopper train in tow.

CSX 1 The "Spirit of West Virginia" makes an early morning pass by Brunswick. This train stopped at Brunswick to get a set of helpers for a push on the Old Main Line to its destination in Baltimor... (more)

The "Spirit of West Virginia" puts Andrew Carnegie's first major steel mill into perspective. The Edgar Thomson Works was opened in 1875 and was named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railr... (more)

CSXT 1 CW44AC spirit of West Virginia

The pride of the fleet, "The Spirit of West Virginia", CSXT 1 gleams in the morning sun as it awaits it's next assignment into the WV coalfields.