The headlights of NS 234 light up the rails of the double track Kenova District Mainline as the hotshot doublestacker passes SunCoke's KRT Docks Creek transloading facility at a blistering 40 mile... (more)

Take what you can get

Rumors had been circulating for months as Norfolk Southern has been looking to trim unused rail lines due to a fatally ill coal market. As such, the northern ... (more)

After stalling on the grade through the Breaks Interstate Park and doubling their train up the hill, CSX ethanol train K447-05 departs out of the siding at Towers on the former Clinchfield north e... (more)

Local power for the Kanawha River Railroad out of Dickinson sits quietly on an unseasonably warm and overcast January afternoon. With no work on this Saturday afternoon, the power will wait for t... (more)

Cumberland to Cincinnati Q317-04 is westbound on the Kanawha Subdivision at Catlettsburg, passing through town on the triple track mainline with two ex-Conrail SD60Ms for power bound for a crew ch... (more)

The pusher of the Lexington Branch trash train has crested the slight grade west of Ashland and is now ducking into the modified Ashland tunnel, less than a mile from the junction with the Kanawha... (more)

Well...that can't be good

It seems the 2% grades of the Princeton-Deepwater District have taken a toll on U85, today's train being one of the last of the ex-VGN hill runs. As the tr... (more)

After setting off a cut of empty containers on the former C&O Lexington Sub main, CSXT 3139 starts heading back east to couple to the west end of it's train and assist CSXT 405 with spotting the l... (more)

Ohio South Central's Jackson Turn is tied down on the former DT&I mainline in Jackson while the crew takes a short lunch break at the popular Ponderosa Steakhouse buffet. While the weather for Ve... (more)

A leased Citirail switcher works a cut of Norfolk Southern hoppers through the dumper at SunCoke Energy's Haverhill Coke facility on an unseasonably warm February afternoon. At one time, Haverhil... (more)

Ending of an era

Local job Y206-18 passes by Gillum's Service & Repair at the former location of Meads Station south of Ashland, KY, with the pusher on the rear shoving hard to help ... (more)

Running over 2 hours late due to severe weather in the New River valley, the westbound Cardinal accelerates from their fuel stop on the Passenger Main in Russell Yard heading for their next destin... (more)

A man and his kids wave at the engineer of the eastbound New River Train as the 30-car consist slows down for a station stop at the restored St. Albans passenger depot. This is the second of four... (more)

Under the cover of darkness, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Blue Unit Circus Train "Out Of This World" running as NS train 047 heads west on the Pocahontas District crossing... (more)

216 empty hopper cars and four motors dash through the railroad town of Ashland, passing by the once busy freight depot at 15th Street enroute to Russell Yard for a crew change and fuel. Decades ... (more)