With spring evident in the trees near the Marathon office facility (right) CSXT 593 has a manifest in tow headed south.

T360 sits at the Catlettsburg Depot waiting on a crew change.

A Seaboard System unit coal train rolls through Cattlesburg, KY with a pair of SD50's and a Chessie SD40. Seaboard System purchased a lot of new power after their formation, including SD50's and B... (more)

Enroute to Danville, WV CSX train E590 makes his way East with 150 empties for the Coal River Subdivision which is part of CSX's Huntington Division which covers the coal fields of West Virginia.

Was driving along, saw a headlight, whipped the car over to the shoulder, jumped out and grabbed this with no time to spare. The waving engineer and classic C&O signals are pluses in my book!

I was surprised to see this sign back in '96. I understand that the sign is still there, but looking worse for wear and that the classic C&O signals have been replaced.

Idling at "Floodwall" on the Big Sandy Subdivision, an outlawed loaded coal drag waits for a relief crew out of Russell to take the train west to "Bypass".

The busy Russell yard has forced the crew to wait and die on the main while waiting to get into the yard.

As Cranemasters and CSX employees work on removing the final set of heads from the C&O signal bridge at the Big Sandy Interlocking, another part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is killed.

A eastbound coal train passes under the massive C&O signal bridge.

After documenting the last train to pass under these signals earlier in the day, the next to final set of signal heads are carefully moved southward over the Big Sandy Subdivision, enroute to a du... (more)

The very last train to pass under the massive four track C&O signal bridge at Big Sandy Junction. These relics have served the former C&O mainline for the past half a century, guiding steam, early... (more)

C&O for progress.. The arm to the once photogenic C&O cantilever signal at "Floodwall" is slowly lowered to the ground as another part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is killed.