A depressing sight at this once thriving coal loadout, as CSX coal gons rust away.

With a long train of Wisconsin Electric Power hoppers, one Chicago & North Western and two CSX EMD’s roll through the hilly farmland at Buzz, Pennsylvania. The two CSX/one CNW power combination... (more)

The old Alco still remains in the same place as last year. There still may be hope for her. The Tipple has been reopened but it is trucking coal in and out. Lets hope they soon have a need to fire... (more)

It's only mid-afternoon but the shadows already cover the valley floor in the West Virginia coal fields. A mine run has placed its empties and will now gather the loads.

Eastbound coal loads roll slowly down the main line as a yard full of coal loads await their movement east. One empty train awaits its westward movement to the West Virginia coal fields.

Busy times at Converse Junction
A Chicago & North Western coal train led by GE AC4400CW No. 8803 has just about finished loading at Antelope Mine at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on May 12... (more)

An eastbound coal train slows to a stop in Bluefield Yard for a crew change before it continues its eastward journey.

Head 'em up, move 'em out! Three coal trains and a freight are lined up at Bluefield Yard ready to head east.

Flood Loading at Dora

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville Turn has positioned a cut of empty hoppers under the loader at Dora, Pennsylvania, and has begun to slowly pull them as a s... (more)

Ex-West Virginia Northern No. 51, still in WVN paint, rests on a stub track at Patriot Coal in Albright, WV. No. 51 was presumably sold to Patriot when the WVN ceased operations in 1991.

Early CSX paint schemes included variants that were not widely propagated. Here, a C&O 100-ton hopper has retained its reporting marks, and the CSX logo includes the word, “Transportation”. Th... (more)

I Wana Get This Train Loaded

A Wisconsin Electric train begins the flood loading process at the Blacksville Number 2 Mine in Wana, West Virginia. The Super 7’s are all on the pro... (more)

A Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 and two Baltimore & Ohio GP9’s bring westbound empties out of Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Empty hoppers on their way back to the mines roll west out of the Baltimore & Ohio's yard at Grafton, WV, on a summer afternoon, behind an F7/SD9/GP9 lashup.

A Roger Puta Photograph