CSX’s OLS MAC rebuild leads CSX M308 west through Covington, VA.

Yarding: CSXT 6050, a GP40-2, sits in Convington, VAs CSX yard awaiting its next instructions from dispatch before back east into the yard.

A westbound C&O freight is rolling through the curved yard as a GP30M yard switcher stands by. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

P051 sweeps the curve near BS Cabin, just outside Covington, Va.

An eastbound loaded coal train has reached the bottom of the Alleghany grade at BS Cabin. Brake smoke aplenty.

I think Virginia is beautiful, particularly in the mountainous areas, but it can feel grim in winter - cold, gray and wet. You can see it n this image, with C&O 6189 providing about the only brig... (more)

CSXT train T21122 weaves through the S curves and under the westbound and eastbound facing signals outside of Covington, VA on May 22, 2021. This part of the CSX system, the Allegheny Subdivision ... (more)

AMTK 136 leads the west Cardinal into Covington, VA on a sunny April evening while the Covington yard job Y191 works in the background.

CSX U109 breaks the silence on the mountain grinding up grade hustling westbound at Moss Run on a very pleasant October afternoon.

A GP40-2 lettered for the Baltimore and Ohio leads a matched set of EMD units on a westbound hopper train just west of Clifton Forge.

Mixed Train on the Chesapeake and Ohio. The Hot Springs Mixed, train 310, pauses at the Covington, Virginia station while returning to Clifton Forge. GP7 5894 has just one coach and a caboose on t... (more)

Built around 1914, in Covington, Virginia this former Chesapeake and Ohio passenger station is now home for the Alleghany Historical Society.

PO50 passing east thru Moss Run on an early spring day with Collis P Huntington Railroad Historical Society's New York Central 38 and Braddock Inn private cars in tow.

A loaded coal train traverses Allegheny Grade approaching Covington, Virginia

On a gray morning, a C&O freight curves toward the Hawthorne Street overpass and the station and yard just beyond.