On a clear night in the Potomac River Valley near Romney, the constant drone of an idling B&O F7(A) echos off the valley, in a photo illuminated by a combination of flash and ambient light. The st... (more)

The biggest storm since '95...That's what the locals are saying anyway... With more than 18" of fresh powder blanketing the C&O mainline, high priority CSX Q136 tunnels through snow drifts from Wi... (more)

Coal may not be what it used to be and the trains may not roll through the community of Sproul as often as they used to, but the loyal Chesapeake & Ohio style cantilever signals still guide trains... (more)

Freshly painted Clinchfield Railroad No. 800 leads the 75th running of the Santa Train southbound on home rails, spanning the Copper Creek viaduct. The locomotive was recently painted at CSX's Hun... (more)

Inspired by a photo from David Honan and the "star wars" effect shows the classic C&O pole signal at Indian displaying a rather odd and rare "double approach" indication as a heavy snow falls from... (more)

Making our way back down the mountain at 8MPH, WM 6 passes Lower Gum while a teenage girl enjoys the sights of beautiful Appalachia.

Disrupting the silence in downtown Nitro at the early morning hour of 2am, a severe thunderstorm rolls across the Kanawha Valley, bringing with it an impressive lightning show. The single yard eng... (more)

Empties for Russell have just left Hinton, following the banks of the New River west through the Sandstone Falls. Appropriately titled the "New River Subdivision", this empty coal drag will hug th... (more)

It's 6:18 am in the Hawks Nest Gorge as westbound coal empties work their way through Ansted and points west during a beautiful morning glow.

N&W 382 has just paused into position on the turntable at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. An additional museum piece sits on display, making for a good comparison of two generations of locomo... (more)

With 110 loads of coal for Tidewater export, NS DC-to-AC conversion AC44C6M No. 4039 eases across the Virginian Railway-built trestle at Sweeneysburg. 110 cars back, a quartet of Watco-owned SD60s... (more)

As seen from this aerial perspective, an assortment of EMD standard cabs await a variety of servicing by the Huntington Locomotive Shops. Locomotives are inspected, serviced, repainted, and scrapp... (more)

Obstructed by vegetation, the N&W CPL mast signs protecting the junction between N&W's Caretta Branch and the Dry Fork Branch mainline stands tall along the intersection of Routes 16 and 83 in rur... (more)

Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of run-through CSXT CW44ACs enter the only tunnel on R.J. Corman's former C&O Loup Creek Branch near Mount Hope. The two CSX locomotives are retur... (more)

Ultra wide view of the cab of C&O 1308, a 2-6-6-2 owned by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Society.