All is exceptionally quiet on CSX's ex-C&O coalfields, but a clear signal at the W.E. Coal River Siding indicates that will soon change as a 220-car coal train makes its way to the mainline at St.... (more)

A Beech Mountain RR Alco S2 makes a trip to the Star mine as it rumbles through Palace Valley and into the woods of rural West Virginia. Oddly enough, this a very rarely photographed railroad on R... (more)

A closer look at CSX's latest 'Dark Future' rendering highlights the application of the railroad's website URL underneath the 'X' as seen here on freshly repainted AC4400CW No. 155 in Huntington, ... (more)

The tail end of the scarcely used Mt. Laurel mining spur appears to be more popular amongst the locals than it does rail traffic. Here, tucked away from civilization, this section of track represe... (more)

Built in the 1940's for Chattanooga Traction Company, this SW1 has lived quite the life, operating on a variety of railroads in her life span. Later operated by Southern and ultimately Norfolk Sou... (more)

Just days before Norfolk Southern would mothball the eastern end of its former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District, eastbound loads met westbound empties between... (more)

About as far away from the CSX mainline as you can get in the backwoods of southern West Virginia, an empty coal train led by CSXT 3133 navigates sharp curves, thick fog, and tight clearances thro... (more)

Eastbound coal loads pass the Kanawha Falls, just west of Gauley Bridge. Fall color is progressing nicely in Southern West Virginia with most locations near 50% peak.

With a night snow storm dumping several inches of fresh snow, CSXT 6408 idles in Westward Siding on an H033 work train.

Mainline steam returns to West Virginia for the first time in nearly 20 years! NKP 765, deadheading from Portsmouth, OH to Williamson, WV has just crossed into the town of Kenova, from South Point... (more)

Norfolk & Western J-Class No. 611 works upgrade near Old Fort, N.C., as it prepares its upward climb into the Old Fort loops on the old Southern Railway mainline. The public excursion is en route ... (more)

Above average temperatures and elevated humidity lay along the Levisa Fork as Shelby-bound CSX M653 approaches GC Cabin on CSX's ex-Chesapeake & Ohio Big Sandy Subdivision.

PRR 1223, a Juanita 4-4-0 spends her days in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. This steam locomotive made her final run on October 26th, 1989.

Good for 20? In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, several washouts disrupted rail service on primary and secondary routes for CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and neighboring short lines. ... (more)

The classy cab interior of an EMD GP7.