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.
A NS coal train passes the old coaling tower at CP Farm.
54W awaits clearance at Farm on a clear October night.
J5M Pusher set with the Reading Heritage Unit has just coupled to tankers behind NS 64M and start their trek up the infamous Elkhorn Grade here at Farm...
Bluefield Service, used for storing ties and scrap iron by the MOW trains. This ancient gondola has seen better days and shows the ravages of time.
NS 52Q, with Dash 8 with brake stick wedged, awaits pushers under the old coaling tower that harks back to days when steam was king on the ole N&W...
A poet from the coalfields deep within West Virginia has chalked his prose upon a Conrail coal hopper. One must wonder how many tons of black diamonds have exited the state via the thirty or forty... (more)
SD40-2 6097 leads eastbound 234 towards the old N&W signals with the small town of Capels on the hillside in the background.
Having just left Mohegan, 83Q crosses the Capels bridge over the Tug Fork in a seldom photographed location. Pushers have already been added to the rear for the assault up the Elkhorn Grade.
NS 58G waits for passing trains under the old coaling tower.
58G holds under the coaling tower at Farm
After a stop to attach a pusher 18M rolls east past the old coal tower at Farm with an unknown coal train idling underneath
234 rolls through the town of Capels with NS SD40-2 6097 leading TFM SD40-2 1436.
