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)
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)
Wild N' Wonderful West Virginia... Remarkably, only 15 miles from West Virginia's capital city of Charleston, the unique and obscure Winifede Railroad eases toward their small interchange y... (more)
Tied down and basking in the morning light, Big Eagle SW1500 No. 01 sits coupled to a string of vintage coal hoppers on the grounds of the former Winifrede Railroad in Chesapeake. Several weeks ha... (more)
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.
Two geeps sit idling at the Big Eagle terminal in Cheylan, WV.
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!?!?!
The Big Eagle Railroad shifter nears the CSX interchange with a string of brand new CSX coal gondolas.
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.
Switching loaded coal hoppers at the CSX interchange at Winifrede Junction.
The Alco "Twinkie" model. This is a remote switcher used at the barge loading facility of the Big Eagle Railroad (formerly the Winifrede Railroad).
