Baggage service on Amtrak's Cardinal is still a fairly new procedure as the Charleston Ticket Agent converses with an Amtrak conductor during the routing station stop in Charleston.

Along the road to Leyard I came upon a Penn Central freight at a grade crossing near Charleston. Luck was with me on this trip. The banjo crossing warning was an added feature.

With a light mist falling, a Dodge truck carefully negotiates four boxes of circus equipment onto the one of 19 flat cars on RBBB's Red Unit. It takes around a total of six hours to load the ninet... (more)

NS 2682 on NS J3E idles in downtown Charleston on a rainy evening. This particular light engine was waiting for Circus employees to load the 19 flat cars and 4 animal cars associated with the Ring... (more)

The circus is in town! The final elephant of the Ringling Brothers Red Unit Tour slowly exits one of four animal cars. Special thanks go to the Ringling Bros. employees for allowing me to get this... (more)

NS 048, the northbound RBBB Red Unit Circus Train transporting animal and equipment flat cars to Charleston stroll past the capital on a spring afternoon. The passenger coaches are taken off of th... (more)

Overlooking Coonskin Park, the former B&O Charleston-Gilmer line lingers in the foreground slowly being reclaimed by mother nature. A walkway leading to the outdoor theater can be seen in the fore... (more)

NS 4611 has just coupled to a UP refrigerator car at a local industry as the conductor throws a wave before boarding his train.

CSX H707, the well known "Gauley Trolley" makes it's way eastbound through Charleston, the capital of West Virginia. The train will eventually deliver a string of cars to Norfolk Southern in Alloy... (more)

Amtrak P051, the westbound Cardinal sits idling at the Charleston Amtrak Station as a considerable amount of passengers board the Chicago bound train.

Passengers sit patiently awaiting the arrival of the five minute late, Amtrak Cardinal.

I was on the way home from college when I got a tip from a friend of mine this extra move hauling military equipment was headed towards Charleston. We see it here in downtown Charleston, WV about... (more)

CSX #9 leads a coal train around a curve in Charleston, WV.. hot on the heels of another coal train.

CSX 787 leans a coal train into a curve at Charlestown, WV

The Cardinal heads east through Charleston, passing the old, and long out of service, C&O bridge across the Kanawha River. Canon Rebel Ti/Canon 28-90 zoom.