After pushing a coal drag through Elkhorn Tunnel, this lone pusher returns solo to do it all over again.

Emptys are moving westward as this hopper train is coasting downgrade at nearly 1.4% as it makes a rolling meet with an EB.

Coal is King, but Gravity rules, which requires 12,000 HP on the rear to shove this unit train up Elkhorn Creek and through Elkhorn Tunnel.

In a scene played out several times a day, a pusher set shoves a coal drag across the massive Maybeury bridge and up the Elkhorn grade. He will soon cutoff and return back downhill to wait on anot... (more)

20,000 Horses and 10,000 tons of coal make for an intense afternoon show on the steep Elkhorn Grade.

NS 9666 creeps under the old N&W signal bridge near the Elkhorn Tunnel.

After helping a coal drag over the Elkhorn Grade, this trio of pushers have just exited the Elkhorn Tunnel, and will coast back down to Auville to do it all over again.

Fast freight 17M ducks under the signals at the west portal of Elkhorn Tunnel as it glides silently down the mighty Elkhorn Grade. The grade will soon be home to several doublestacks a day when th... (more)

Air troubles caused 83E to stall on the west slope of Coaldale Mountain.

NS Pusher 7535 is dwarfed by the tunnel ventilator that was used in the steam era to rid the tunnel of poisonous gases emitted by the steam engines.

Thunder In The Mountains! The ground literally shakes as this trio of pushers strain to get this coal drag across the summit of Coaldale Mountain inside Elkhorn Tunnel under the old N&W signals ne... (more)

After a two hour ordeal hooking up a pusher set to the front, giving 147 a total of eight engines, the move crawls toward the top of the grade. Fall has arrived in southern WV as the hills are a r... (more)

A coal drag passes an old whistle post along the Pokey.

Three SD 60's are down on their knees trying to conquer the world famous Pocahontas grade. The train had three helpers on the rear.