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)

Approaching the townsite of Winifrede, a pair of GP38-2's lead a string of two dozen CSX loads from the Big Eagle mine to the CSX/Winifrede interchange along the Kanawha River in Chesapeake. This ... (more)

Winefrede SW1500 #13 leaving the mine with coal loads, April 1971.

Winifrede Mine RR Company SW1500 #13 with a cut of coal loads at Winifrede, WV || April 1971

An endless cycle, JTPX 2012 takes empties up Winifrede hollow back to the mine.

A pair of geeps pull a string of loaded CSX hoppers westbound past the small and quiet town of Winifrede.

A Big Eagle coal train ducks under CSX's Kanawha Subdivision.

Big Eagle Railroad #2012 pulls emptys past the former Winifrede Railroad Steam engine house on its way to the mine. I must have missed the steam operation by a few days!?!?!

One of the daily runs from the Winifrede Mine to the Kanawha River at Winifrede Junction passes through the hollar with a string of brand new CSX coal gondolas.