Catching some evening sun, an enthusiastic conductor finds a creative way to pose for a photograph as his westbound loaded coal train negotiates the Coal River branch line.
After coming out of AEP's John Amos Power Plant, a pair of light engines run around their train at Coal Dock. The train will eventually depart to the west, bound for the Big Sandy Subdivision.
Is it 2011 or 1985? Throttling up after emerging from the St. Albans Tunnel, a former C&O SD40-2 leads a train of empty coal hoppers up the Coal River branch line, splitting the mast signals at CP... (more)