Breaking the nighttime silence in the bottom of the New River Gorge at Thurmond, eastbound grain loads slice through the summer haze, left behind after a series of thunderstorms earlier in the eve... (more)

Thurmond's Decline.. Maintained by the National Park Service, the historic town of Thurmond that once served as a very influential terminal to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and the New River coal... (more)

The morning Cardinal running late slows to check for passengers at Thurmond.

Trackside view of the remaining hardware on the 1922 Farbanks Morse C&O coaling tower in Thurmond.

Loaded coal drag passes the old C&O Coaling tower in Thurmond.

Crossing the New River at Thurmond, empties for the R.J. Corman loadout at Pax diverge onto the former C&O Loup Creek branch from the C&O main at Thurmond, under the power of a duo of CSX GE's.

Following Loup Creek downgrade to Thurmond, the R.J. Corman local follows the route of the C&O Loup Creek branch from Mt. Hope with covered hoppers for the interchange in tow.

Enroute to the CSX/Corman interchange at Thurmond, a pair of former Southern Pacific SD40-2T's follow Loup Creek into the New River Gorge from Mt. Hope.

Concrete milepost 391 along the CSX New River Subdivision in Thurmond, West Virginia has seen many snowfalls and many, many tons of coal pass by. The coaling tower in the background is scheduled t... (more)

RJ Corman took control of this CSX powered coal train at Thurmond, West Virginia. The train will then power upgrade along Loup Creek to the Pax coal loadout.

The sleepy town of Thurmond is interrupted as an empty train of grain hoppers rumble through. One of the C&O's busiest coal producing terminals once existed here along with the dozens of men and w... (more)

CSX 5006 hauls empty coal hoppers up grade along Loup Creek to the Pax, West Virginia coal loadout right after a fresh snow flurry covered the area. This train will stop outside of Mt. Hope and ad... (more)

Enroute to the CSX/Corman interchange at Thurmond, the entire locomotive roster for the West Virginia operations glide past the frigid Loup Creek falls in dynamic brakes.

The Chesapeake and Ohio signal still stands as the snow falls on what may be it's last winter.

As efforts are being made to repaint locomotives into CSX's 'boxcar logo' scheme by shop forces, a pair of clean 'bright future' YN2's are quickly becoming a thing of the past.. CSXT 521 and fello... (more)