Westbound mtys climb the 1.14 percent grade at Backbone, Virginia. The best scenery on the entire Alleghany Subdivision can be found within a 7.5 mile stretch from East Alleghany, to OX Cabin.

Empty hoppers head West up the grade at Moss Run.

Westbound empties have nearly completed the uphill climb to Alleghany Summit, near the control point of E.E. Alleghany. With a full moon high in the sky, the west portal of the Lewis Tunnel is ill... (more)

A westbound empty, CSXT E502, is in 8TH notch trying to overcome gravity on the east slope of Afton Mountain and is seen exiting the 100 foot Little Rock Tunnel just east of Afton. Canon EOS 50D