The small yard at Rowlesburg was as empty as I've ever seen it - a cut of hoppers in the distance were the only occupants.

It's only early October and the fall foliage already appears to be slightly past peak at Altamont.

317 gets underway on the Mountain Sub with a quartet of dark future units up front.

Q317-27 departing Cumberland via Viaduct to the Mountain Sub

Happy Birthday to me. With half the day gone and my scanner missing in action, I took a gamble that "The Snake"- the Mountain Sub's only manifest train - was still leaving Cumberland in the early ... (more)

Westbound freight Q317 passes through the junction at Lumberport with the Haywood Power Plant in the background. The line on the left provides access to the power plant and Robinson Run Mine.

Q317 is about to assend the 17 Mile Grade on CSX's Mountain Sub with mid unit helpers today. The Beryl Kingsford Plant is in the background

Q317 heads out the Mt. Sub over the Viaduct in Cumberland with it's usual bevy of power on the head end with a total of 7 units today.

Q317 puts the hammer down on the Mountain sub as it snakes through the long rolling S curves at Pinto MD.

'The Snake' perpares to battle the last grade before Grafton a few minutes before sunset

Almost to the Summit of the Alleghenies

As shadows creep across the bridge, 317 crosses the Cheat while a couple of fishermen try their luck in the river.

Trying a slightly different angle of the most photographed CPLs on the West End.

CA's formerly complex interlocking has been removed, but the tower still stands, more than 20 years after its closure.