The rising sunlight glints off the side of CSX 716 as it finishes the last few switching moves before this third shift crew gets to go home for the night.
A couple of new SD70ac units sit tied down behind the crew shack.
Brand new SD70MAC CSX 716 leads a westbound empty coal train by WB Tower in Brunswick, MD in late September 1997.
A pair of SD70MAC's lead a loaded coal train down the old B&O M&K Branch near Kingwood.
In a scene that will never be repeated, a loaded coal train crosses the Cheat River near Kingwood. CSX abandoned and removed the old M&K not long after this photo was taken.
In a scene that will never be repeated, a loaded coal train runs along the Cheat River as it heads for Rowlesburg on the old B&O M&K Branch. The line was abandoned just a few years later.
In a scene that will never be repeated, a pair of SD70MAC's lead a coal train under the WV Route 7 overpass near Kingwood. This ex-B&O line is now abandoned.
In a scene that will never be repeated, a unit train crosses the Cheat River with coal from Kingwood. The line was once the B&O's M&K Branch and it is now abandoned.
Wateree empty just getting started on the long trip back to Kentucky.
Southbound for the Augusta Sub.
