With 28 coal loads for the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, a pair of GATX-leased GP38-2s exit Winifrede and ease into the Kanawha Valley. The Watco train crew has spent the last two days loading cu... (more)

Two GATX Rail-leased GP38-2s bring a load of 25 coal hoppers through Winifrede proper, nearly halfway between the Kanawha Eagle loadout and the staging yard in Chesapeake, WV. As soon as the loads... (more)

Two EMD GP38-2s navigate Winifrede hollow with 25 coal loads for the CSXT interchange at Chesapeake. After loading the unit train in multiple cuts and delivering to the small Winifrede Yard, a CSX... (more)

After flood loading 25 coal hoppers, a pair of GATX Rail-leased EMD GP38-2s depart Kanawha Eagle Mine as they navigate Winifrede's yard tracks on the return trip to the CSXT interchange at Chesape... (more)

Two EMD GP38-2s with Midwestern roots have found a new purpose serving Blackhawk Mining's Kanawha Eagle Mine on the former Winifrede Railroad. Here, the two leased motors haul the first cut of 27 ... (more)

Two GP38-2's begin their six mile run down the Fields Creek valley with hoppers loaded at the West Carbon Mine. There is a small, three track yard at the mine that allows the road crew to build a... (more)

Two GP38-2's lead a train of coal hoppers down grade through the tiny village of Winifrede towards Winifrede Jct. where the coal will be loaded into barges on the Kanawha River. Transhipment ceas... (more)

Two GP38-2's move a string of hoppers under the loaders at the West Carbon Mine. Once loaded the train will descend the grade down the Fields Creek valley to Winifrede Jct. where the coal will be... (more)

Two GP38-2's lead a loaded coal train downgrade past the former Winifrede Railroad enginehouse. The coal will be loaded into barges on the Kanawha River at Chesapeake WV. The barge loading facili... (more)

Big Eagle Railroad's SW1500 switches the West Carbon Mine loadout. The railroad goes back to 1881 with the chartering of the Winifrede Railroad to serve the coal mines in the Fields Creek drainag... (more)

Built for the Belt Railway of Chicago, GMTX EMD GP38-2 No. 2109 idles in rural south central West Virginia on the old Winifrede Railroad. The locomotive is used to shuffle coal empties and loads b... (more)

Winifrede #13 working near Winifrede, WV in the late spring of 1972.

Under a dramatic sky, two Joesph Transportation "Geeps" sit and await their next assignment for the Big Eagle Railroad in the Winifrede Hollow.

Two former UP/BN Geep's sit silent in the yard near Kanawha Eagle's West Carbon Mine on the former Winifrede Railroad, a railroad itself that predates the famous C&O mainline through the New River... (more)

Approaching the small transfer yard along the Kanawha River, a pair of GP38's lead a string of two dozen CSX coal loads along the former Winifrede Railroad in Chesapeake. The once bustling short l... (more)