These days, The Bates Branch Loadout tends to be a storage yard for Track Maintenance Equipment.

Hazard mine run C840-18 crosses the West Fork trestle along the former Chesapeake & Ohio EB&V between Martin, KY and Deane, KY on a frigid January morning. "Chesapeake And Ohio" still g... (more)

Storage cars rot away at the inactive Bates Branch loadout deep in the C&O coalfields.

Not going anywhere for a while? It looks like this old Alco has been put out to pasture. The loadout in the background appears active, however.

During a spring shower, a mine shifter out of Martin prepares to flood load at the Bate Branch mine on the E&BV Subdivision.