Autumn Colors. The foliage colors were very bright (if not the sky) on the morning of Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in South Charleston, West Virginia. Amtrak’s tri-weekly Cardinal (Train 5... (more)
Wth the South Charleston industrial park in the background, molten sulfur loads for the Potash Corp. mine at Aurora, N.C., roll east along the former C&O mainline under the lead power of CN EMD SD... (more)
Cabooses are still earning their keep in Class I local service in West Virginia as CSXT Operation Red Block caboose No. 16640 brings up the rear of Sunday's Gauley Trolley as it arrives bac... (more)
Bright future under dark skies... CSX YN2-painted GP40-2 No. 4419 enters South Charleston yard limits on a restricting signal after exchanging loaded covered hoppers for empties at West Virginia M... (more)
Built in May 1978 for Conrail, this 43-year-old EMD GP40-2 continues to wear CSX's ever increasingly rare "Bright Future" YN2 paint scheme as it lays over in the railroad's former C&O ya... (more)
With many of its siblings in storage or in the deadline, CSX EMD SD40-2 No. 8856 earns its keep during this July 3rd perspective on the head end of CSX Q302 in the South Charleston yard. The train... (more)
It's rather unusual to catch an EMD SD40-2 leading a Class I railroad freight train today. Here, CSX Q302 with CSX EMD SD40-2 No. 8856 and SD40-3 No. 4326 drops off a cut of 36 cars at the South C... (more)
A new Loram rail grinder waits at the signals at South Charleston for traffic to clear.
Used for training public service personnel, the CSX Safety Train is setup in South Charleston for training of the local fire departments. Sitting in front of the safety train image, one of the new... (more)
A Loram Switch Point Grinder sits in South Charleston, West Virginia as it waits for CSX Q303-10 to leave South Charleston Yard.
Train number 50 with both the F40 and Veterans unit passes by just minutes away from there stop at Charleston.
Built for the Alaska Railroad in the August of 1983 with the original road number pictured above, former ARR 2803 now operated by US Rail sits tied down near the former C&O scale house in the Sout... (more)
One of CSX's new units out on the main line with a train load of coal.
As a severe thunderstorm rolls through the FRA car works it's way west.