Running light to pick up an empty flat car at Mount Storm, B875 eases through the sharp curves on the Thomas Sub. The train barely made it past here when the dispatcher called him to return to Pie... (more)
Back on WM rails, B875 heads for coal country along the Potomac River's North Branch.
In Western Maryland days, this train would have been on the bridge, instead of on the B&O's Mountain Sub. At West Virginia Central Jct., B875 will leave B&O rails and diverge onto former WM track... (more)
588 and another AC4400 push a coal train into VEPCO's Mt. Storm plant. It took these two ACs plus two more on the front to lug about 40 cars of coal up the very steep and curvy Stony River Sub.
An impressive collection of AC units here, over 17,000 horsepower worth! The head and rear ends of B875 have coupled up and are ready to run light down the Stony River Sub.