Do you think they lose cable every time a train passes? I'd live there anyway, gladly! Three A&O geeps arrive in Alexander to pick up 80 cars of West Virginia coal from the Beech Mountain.

You'd never know this day dawned with a snowstorm...11Z rolls towards Roanoke in nice sunlight, passing the N&W CPLs guarding Glasgow.

Coal empties throttle up and leave the double-track of Vesuvius, splitting the classic N&W signals that still guard this line for now...with the clock ticking.

No meets today. Indeed, meets are scarce these days on this portion of the Indiana Sub, with J780 having the line all to itself here, passing the only intact siding left between Mitchell and Seymo... (more)

CSX J780 rumbles past the Shields CPLs on this withering branch that was once B&O's mainline to St. Louis.

Dawn breaks over Hamden as Ohio South Central 104 trundles out of the yard. A lot has changed for the old B&O mainline, but the codeline, at least for a few yards, is still here.

CSX's Gauley Trolley is returning to home rails after running across the Kanawha River over a part of the former Virginian Railway. Here, the train is backing down from Vaco Junction, creeping alo... (more)

The sun has just broken the horizon as Q350 kicks up the snow in Botkins, thundering north past the classic B&O CPLs.

BIP 278 emerges from a forest of green in Alden, Ohio, heading for Relief.

NS 11Z rumbles past the furthest south Norfolk and Western CPL on the Roanoke District as the sun sets. This is one of the last holdouts of these classic signals, but the sun is setting on them as... (more)

The Shortline Sub runs between New Martinsville and Clarksburg, WV. There are three tunnels, and very little straight track as the line weaves along creeks through the hills.

An oddity along the unsignalled Ohio River Subdivision, a classic B&O Color Position Light serves as a switch indicator today just north of the yard in New Martinsville. The positions on the head ... (more)

KN380 has just emerged from New Lexington tunnel and is slithering south towards Moxahala. The train will pass through five more tunnels before arriving in Hobson.

381 bursts out of Wilson Tunnel, shooting exhaust smoke into the air.

C&O Searchlights at Sunrise...a scene you almost want to disappear into.