Sporting a new symbol for the KD, U335 runs out of Hickory Creek tunnel and towards Duff Mountain. No help will be needed today.

Antler Two tunnel on the Pocahontas main. This marker has seen billions of dollars of black diamonds in a lifetime go by.

After pushing one up the Grade, this pusher set heads back to Farm to repeat the job all over again.

Showing the notched ceiling for the upcoming doublestacks, Antler Number Two tunnel is ready for business when the corridor project is completed.

Easy downhill, this coal drag will be in Virginia in seconds in what essentially is a trip from the mountains to the sea with WV black diamonds.

An old high hood still putting coal trains together in Eckman Yard after all these years. Better get them while you can.

Ducking under the huge iron shroud from the steam days, a fast freight tops Elkhorn Grade and enters the mile long tunnel at dusk.

This worktrain about needs a swivel in the middle to crawl out of the sump it finds itself in.

Like a rat streaking by as a light mist hits the rails.

I'd always wanted this shot at Keystone but it never seemed to come about due to trackwork.

Loading with a wheel loader, three at a time, generally takes six hours. The unit train is cut into two halves with three motors for each half.

Heading north to refuel from a tanker at Morley, helper engine C212 glides silently thru Hickory Creek tunnel.

Framed by one of the many blizzard fences along the tracks, another coal drag notches up to leave the Powder River Basin. This particular unit train cycles every other day between northern Colorad... (more)

A unit train with a solo helper leaves the Powder River Basin in a cloud of coal dust as mtys with a solo helper arrive to take it's place.

A UP unit train heads to the Black Thunder loadout at Nacco Junction while a BNSF helper set idles away. Another helper set is just to the right, out of the frame on the busy PRB. The Jacobs Ranch... (more)