A rainy day look back through time... Norfolk Southern mixed freight NS 380 makes its final run across the NS Princeton-Deepwater District near Mullens, W.Va., on the eve of the former Virg... (more)

KN36 passes through Gulf Junction leaving Elmore Yard on its way north for loading at Dickinson

Norfolk Southern coal empties exit Cedar Creek Tunnel north of Mullens,WV on the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District now operated by Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. This train would load... (more)

Four ex-Norfolk Southern EMD SD60s bring up the rear of a 96-car coal train on its way to NS at Elmore Yard. The train has just finished its run across the Kanawha River Railroad's Mullens Subdivi... (more)

With dusk quickly approaching, CN-painted EJ&E SD38-2 No. 658 exits the tunnel at Mullens on its final leg into Elmore Yard from Alloy on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. The CN-painted EMD locomot... (more)

The Blue Unit Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train eases through downtown Mullens, about to enter NS' Elmore Yard. At Elmore, the Kanawha River Railroad crew will hand the train off to N... (more)

Two empty coal trains bound for loading on the Kanawha River Railroad idle away at the north end of Elmore Yard, awaiting crews to bring them over the hilly ex-Virginian Princeton-Deepwater Distri... (more)

Two empty coal trains sit idle in Elmore Yard on the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District, waiting for crews from the Kanawha River Railroad to take the trains north for loading. KN-50, ... (more)

Norfolk Southern Yardmaster Pete Hypes poses for a photo inside the Elmore Yard office in Mullens, W.Va. Just days after this photo was taken, Hypes celebrates his 60th year of working for the rai... (more)

Operating from Dickinson Yard to Mullens, the last NS-operated chemical train rolls into a tunnel just north of Mullens as it traces the Virginian main toward Elmore Yard. Once the train arrives i... (more)

NS U91 rolls into Mullens, W.Va., on a beautiful January morning with a long coal drag that was acquired at Page in the early hours; the Mullens tunnel can be seen behind the locomotives.

NS 1605, SR 3243, NS 9720, NS 1385 head east out of Mullens on one of the coal branches that seemed to litter the area. I had always been interested in the area as my grandfather had been born in ... (more)

NS U92 with 1009 leading heads through along the former Virginian line.

Virginian had a large shop in Mullens, WV to service their electric locomotives. Note the freshly painted N&W trainmaster.

A pair of Ex Virginian H Liners are switching a train near Mullens, WV.