After leaving close to 12" of snow overnight, the first trick yard job switches the east end of Clifton Forge Yard in preparations for Q302's departure. Clifton Forge is a relatively busy terminal... (more)

Richmond bound, CSX T239 has just been recrewed in Clifton Forge and is beginning its slow departure east, toward JD Cabin. The first significant snowfall of the 2011-2012 winter season has left a... (more)

Thunderstorms at a place long abandoned.. Handley served as a large terminal in the Chesapeake & Ohio steam era, connecting coal operations in the Kanawha Valley to operations in the New River Val... (more)

Action in Thurmond.. In a community that less than 10 people currently call 'home', there's no shortage of trains on this February afternoon.. Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal has just cleared town and... (more)

Dragging through the New River Gorge at a shade over 5 hours late, the eastbound Amtrak Cardinal attempts to make up time, after encountering a service disruption in Hamilton, OH overnight.

Westbound on the Loup Creek Branch, R.J. Corman power makes the commute from Pax to the spur at Harvey after loading a train earlier in the week and assisting it over the grade this morning.

Passing the Mt. Hope Fire/EMS Station, a pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors run light toward their home base at Harvey. Moments ago, they cut off of the loaded train they assisted out of Pax upgrad... (more)

Passing the Pax Branch Baptist Church, both R.J. Corman tunnel motors have successfully shoved 70 loads over the grade leaving Pax, enroute to Thurmond to interchange with CSX.

Shoving 70 car loads of coal toward Mt. Hope, a pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors assist two CSX GE's on the head end. Once making it over the summit, the train will glide downhill into Mt. Hope, ... (more)

Struggling up grade near Pax, a pair of AC4400's lead 70 cars toward Mt. Hope on the RJ Corman Loup Branch Creek.

Passing the Pax Branch Baptist Church, two CSX AC's return to the loadout at Pax to retrieve 70 loads of coal before departing toward the CSX interchange at Thurmond. The engines have just set out... (more)

After encountering engines problems earlier in the morning at Handley, CSXT 324 leads a Newport News destined U164 by the post WWII built C&O Prince Station. As part of the 1942 vision by then Che... (more)

A pair of Geeps in fresh horse head paint lead an eastbound work train over the Susquehanna River on the Pittsburgh Line toward Harrisburg.

Westbound across the Rockville Bridge, an Enola bound manifest crosses the Susquehanna as seen from the lawn of the Bridgeview Bed & Breakfast.

Illuminated by a full moon, an intermodal train from Altoona passes over the impressive Rockville Bridge, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Photo taken from the river bank of the Bridgeview Bed ... (more)