A Canadian National BC Rail Dash 9, as the rear distributed power unit, passing the C&O concrete coaling tower at Ronceverte.

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, this westbound string of empty grain hoppers rolls by.

CSX U109 with a SD70MAC Rebuild leading the way wasting no time by the coaling tower in Ronceverte on their way back to coal fields.

A long string of empty hoppers rolls through Roncerverte past the vine covered coal tower..

A loaded coal train slows to a stop at Ronceverte, so that the Ronceverte helper can couple up to the rear.

CSXT 8514 sits with spreader C&O 914055 in the Ronceverte Yard. Interesting how the spreader still has C&O on the side.

Tied down on the pit track in downtown Ronceverte, CSX's Diversity in Motion CW60AC waits for helper assignments over Alleghany grade. A 12 hour curfew has curtailed the majority of CSX's operatio... (more)

Silhouetted against a typical Greenbrier valley summer nighttime sky, the westbound absolute signal at C&O's WR Cabin stands guard, protecting westbound movements from Ronceverte. A curfew to the ... (more)

Burrowed along the narrow Greenbrier River valley, the eastbound absolute signals at Browns Mill pierce the nighttime summer haze. The fairly modern mast signal will soon be placed by an even newe... (more)

150 loaded coal hoppers destined for Pier 9 in Newport News have just started their assault over Alleghany grade, after acquiring the Ronceverte helper. Here, the single ES44AC helper illuminates ... (more)

After assisting 150 loaded coal hoppers over the Alleghany grade from Ronceverte to Tuckahoe, the Ronceverte helper returns west, passing the east end of the siding at 'Browns Mill', near the town... (more)

The Ronceverte helper has just tied on the rear of an eastbound loaded drag and is beginning the climb out of WR Cabin toward the Summit of the Alleghany Grade, nearly 25 miles away. With less tha... (more)

16,000 tons of coal hurries east, kicking up a swath of snow through Ronceverte during the last few minutes of sunlight. Note the very tall code line poles on the left.

Hot Rail! Harsco is hard at work on the number 1 main through Ronceverte. I figure every vehicle on Railroad Avenue will need a bath tonight! Note the heavy foam being sprayed from behind the g... (more)

Running as H747 (Ronceverte Pusher), 745 is shoving hard on the rear of this 150 car loaded coal train. Flash back sixty years and chances are you would have found an H8 Alleghany tucked under th... (more)