First southbound of the morning.
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.