A brandnew SD70M-2 backs up to the wye, preparing to pick up a caboose and then make a mine run up the Dixiana Branch out of Norton Yard on this icy cold Appalachian morning.

Better get a good look at Glen Alum tunnel before the Heartland Corridor project begins. Mine run U23 backs up and will soon head up the Briar Mt. Br on the other side with two motors on the head ... (more)

A busy coal yard on the Pokey, NS 750 puts a coal drag together before heading east toward the Elkhorn Grade. Traffic has picked up at Auville with new mines opening further south on the branches ... (more)

Two new motors making a pusher set await service over the Dry Fork Branch. In a few minutes they'll begin pushing a coal drag just around the corner at Berwind, crawling all the way over the top t... (more)

On the steep Jacobs Fork of the Dry Fork of the Pocahontas Division, mine run U34 has just begun loading at Brooks Run. Traffic has increased on the Jacobs Fork with two loadouts operating now.

Throwing a halo of dry snow, Q141 comes out of the swag at North Kilsyth and trips the signals heading south on a windy morn.

With a splash of WV fall color on the hills, Hill Run U88 makes two cuts and ties the loads down atop Clarks Gap. Not exactly on the beaten path and slightly difficult to access, the scenery is st... (more)

Sparkling clean CSX 5228 crawls up a swag near the end of Duff Mountain, with a helper on the end near Cotula. Odd that this move, primarily autoracks, needed the Chaska helper today.

Mtys just set at the Black Wolf Mining loadout on the Sand Lick Branch of the Tug Branch of the Pocahontas. With the steep grade, sand has just been poured on the rails before loading by gravity a... (more)

Early morning light is creeping into the valleys and hollows of WV, showing the blazing Fall foliage. Pushers and loaded Top Gons await crews at Ned, a small yard just outside Gilbert. The loads w... (more)

The crew for the F units climbs aboard on a windy, frosty morning in the Knoxville Yard.

In an elevated fourteen degree curve on the Pokey, one of the most severe, a coal run dashes toward Bluefield. The track to the right goes to the Buchanan Branch and wye, just across the river. Hi... (more)

Switching motors at Morco Junction on the TN RR, an RJ Corman crew pulls up to the Indian Fork spur. A long day awaits them just a mile away at the Baldwin coal prep plant on New River, loading a ... (more)

10,000th rebody coal car according to the stencil. That's been many a Top Gon thru the shop years ago when the rebody program was active. It was good to hear recently that some won't be scrapped b... (more)

With not enough power for Q539 to make it over the hill, the crew has hooked up a long hood forward helper unit normally reserved for coal drags. Q699 and others await the fix.