A neat looking A-B-A F7 set is seen at the Handley West Virginia yard in 1953. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

After close to three decades of absence, coal smoke filled the air over trains of black diamonds in January, 1985. Here an eastbound train powered by C&O 4-8-4 614 passes through Handley, West Vir... (more)

Steam returned to coal train service on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line during most of the month of January, 1985. C&O 4-8-4 614 pulled coal trains between Huntington and Hinton, West Virginia, wh... (more)

Less than a year old, consecutively numbered Chesapeake & Ohio SD50’s idle in the yard at Handley, West Virginia.

A DPU-equipped grain and loaded coal train illuminates a tied down ethanol train at the east end of Handley Yard. Soon, the 200+ car train will begin its assault on New River, while the ethanol tr... (more)

Amtrak F40 #266 leads the EB "Cardinal" past the yard at Handley, WV

Federal regulators and CSX crews positioned this fleet of damaged tank cars in an enclosed area near the railroad's former Handley yard after a 2015 crude oil derailment leveled a home and put the... (more)

EMD’s GP39 was a limited-production model, only penetrating the rosters of three railroads. Industrial Kennecott Copper bought one, shortline Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay purchased two, and Class 1... (more)

Only the train has changed (almost) – Take away the modern station sign and the wooden pole for communications equipment, and this scene has all of the exterior trappings of a classic train orde... (more)

The H875 crew is slowing to stop at Handley and will tie the train down. The crew brought the train down off the Cabin Creek Sub and a new crew will take it on east.

A light power move of two CSX GE's shuffles along the Kanawha River passing the remnants of the C&O Handley yard. CSXT AC400CW No. 6 was recently released from CSX's Huntington Locomotive Shops, w... (more)

The 2012 Coal Miner's Vacation has concluded and production is in full swing as a loaded export coal drag moves east on the main two in Handley. The once massive C&O yard at Handley hosted a subst... (more)

Thunderstorms at a place long abandoned.. Handley served as a large terminal in the Chesapeake & Ohio steam era, connecting coal operations in the Kanawha Valley to operations in the New River Val... (more)

An eastbound export coal train from Danville awaits a recrew out of Hinton to take the train through the New River Gorge. The yard office and tower is the site of the former C&O Handley Yard Offic... (more)

A empty coal train sits at Handley waiting for a crew in the last few minutes of evening light.