GP9R 92 rests for it’s trip tomorrow to Moorefield.

The Virginian heritage unit leads NS 119 westbound over top of Ingleside Road.

NS 119 comes rides above Ingleside road in Oakvale, WV with the Virginian in the lead.

NS 119 comes into Oakvale, WV with the clean Virginian heritage unit on point. The trestle in the background is ex Virginian, currently NS Princeton Deepwater district.

Passing rain showers have left patchy fog along the Coal River as the eastward-facing C&O cantilever signal at E.E. Big Coal Bypass protects the interlocking at the eastward-most signal on the Big... (more)

We made a stop on our way back to Florida in Bluefield to wait out some of the snow such is this train was doing. The area was quite busy with 6 movements inside of an hour.

A new C6M leads a coal train east out of Bluefield, WV.

A new C6M leads a coal train east through Ada, WV.

Eastbound grain train, the whine of dynamic brakes and just nature otherwise. I liked those SD35s. Odd that exactly none ever got NS paint.

Empties Through Capels | Two AC44C6M rebuild units lead westbound empty coal train 811 past the community of Capels, WV on the gloomy afternoon of Monday, December 18, 2023.

Mountain Town Railroading | A pair of engines lead a westbound train of autorack cars through the town of Welch, WV on a misty Monday, December 18, 2023 morning.

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

A former Southern unit is the last one in a helper string about to cut off. Hard to believe NS is well past its 40th birthday.

After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)

Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.