A set of EB EMD engines have DEEX mtys up to speed as they trip the signals at RN Cabin on the Big Sandy Sub.
Smoke trails the coal loads as they exit Tunnel No.1 on the Pokey main just south of Lovely, WV
U16 misses a very stupid driver by a few feet. I was trying to capture the N&W position signals and almost caught a fatality. Things could have been different if U16 had been on the No.2 main in... (more)
CSX loads off the Coal River head into the small yard at Ceredo for transloading into Ohio River barges. The train is WB on CSX's Kanawha Subdivision just west of Huntington, WV.
A big GE gets serviced at HLS but it looks like the shop crew has visions of running her at Daytona next spring.
Two of the newer locomotives on the CSX roster lead train N110-30 with ELFX mtys north toward Corbin on the KD Sub.
NS 882 creeps over the weigh-in-motion scales at Prichard, WV as the power treads out over the Whites Creek bridge.
A NB out of Danville Yard exits Sproul Tunnel on the Coal River Subdivision.
A former CN 4-axle now owned by KRT (Electric Fuels) works the small yard at Ceredo, WV, along the Kanawha mainline.
SD70MACs still wear Conrail road numbers as they work a cut of cars at the Ramsey Tipple, but things would soon change for the big EMDs.
A former L&N cab under private ownership on display along US 119 in Bell Co., KY.
Fitting end for a great railfanning day, not one but two former N&W cabs bringing up the rear of mine run U25 out of Alum Creek bound for Auville Yard. Only on the Pokey!
Bound for Russell Yard, brand new CSXT 601 & 600 pull loads out of Coal Run Yard and across the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
A CSX mine run loads the very first hopper car at Hignite for the new Santee Cooper contract. Ex-GMP 530 (GP30).
Southbound L142-12 cranks it up to speed leaving Corbin on the KD main as a set of Remote units work a long cut of cars in the East Yard