Westbound ballast train rounds the curve into Finleyville.

Ballast train passes what's left of the former Baltimore & Ohio Finleyville station.

A ballast train signals the beginning of the summer trackwork season on the AVR W&P Sub.

WE 3067 leads 612 from Connellsville to Rook Yard in Greentree, the sun already faded across the Mon Valley, but keeping the high and mighty east end in just enough light for a few more moments at... (more)

AVR 3 passes the long abandoned former Baltimore & Ohio Finleyville station on their afternoon return to Glenwood Yard.

On a sunny mid September day, WLE sports a trio of mismatched power with the leader being one of the ex FURX SD40-2s. The train began it's journey in Rook Yard, near Pittsburgh and will terminate ... (more)

WE 303 leads an eastbound train over the Mingo Creek Trestle.

AVR's turn to Washington, PA on former B&O tracks passes through Finleyville on its way to Eighty Four and other towns down the line.

A 28-car AVR 3 heads west through Finleyville with all covered hoppers in tow.

A former KCS GP40, rebuilt as a GP40-3, leads AVR 3 past a pallet of spike kegs that are part of a November tie replacement project taking place on the west end of the line between Finleyville and... (more)

The dynamic duo of the CNJ and Reading heritage units make their way to the coal fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania yet again. This time, the CNJ is leading through Finleyville, Pa. just outside ... (more)

WE 6310 takes an eastbound high above on the Mingo Creek trestle, but also ducking under Route 43.

High above Ginger Hill road and below Route 43, coke loads from Monessen head west towards Rook. Shortly afterwards, strong thunderstorms would move through the area.

The P&WV folded into the N&W system almost fifty years ago, but a handful of bridges along the line still carry the name of it's original owner. In the 'dead zone' between heavily the photographed... (more)

AVR 3 slowly approaches the dilapidated former Baltimore & Ohio Finleyville station. This is the former B&O Wheeling & Pittsburgh Sub that operated between Glenwood Yard in Pittsburgh and Benwood ... (more)