Westbound mtys climb the 1.14 percent grade at Backbone, Virginia. The best scenery on the entire Alleghany Subdivision can be found within a 7.5 mile stretch from East Alleghany, to OX Cabin.

Q130 heads downgrade at Moores Tunnel.

A westbound CSX unit coil steel train was climbing up Alleghany Grade and out of Moores Tunnel near Backbone, VA on Oct. 25, 1992 with a hodgepodge of motive power.

Westbound single stacks exit 712' Lakes Tunnel on a steady 1.14 percent climb to the summit at Alleghany.