It's a couple minutes 'til 1 am on the early morning hour of Dec. 8, 2011, as two locomotives and 150 empty hoppers bound for the coalfields of southern West Virginia approach Alleghany Summit, th... (more)

In the winter's fading daylight, a 220-car empty coal train passes a community church along Stovers Branch, near Orgas, in January 2022.

A heavy wet snow blankets the otherwise bare trees in the Coal River Valley at Brounland, as four GEs and 220-cars head for Elk Run's Marfork mine for another load of West Virginia metallurgical c... (more)

A 19-year-old Dash 8 has the honors of chaperoning an empty coal train west along the Kanawha River and the West Virginia Turnpike at Malden in the late summer of 2011.

Two relatively clean veteran 'Bright Future' GE AC4400CWs ease coal loads to the CSX interchange at Thurmond during West Virginia's fall colors of October 2019.

Coal loads for the CSX interchange at Thurmond negotiate through the S curves below Harvey, under the guidance of two 'Bright Future' painted CSX AC4400CWs. Fall color is at its peak in West Virgi... (more)

A CSX EMD GP40-2/GP40-3 duo roll into the isolated Vaco Junction with the Gauley Trolley local having just swapped empties for loads at WV Manufacturing at nearby Alloy, W.Va. The South Cha... (more)

Approaching the transfer yard at Chesapeake, a pair of GATX Rail leased Geeps handle 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal for CSX interchange.

Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

GATX EMD GP38-2 No. 2109's blue-and-black paint scheme contrasts well against October's fall colors as the Kanawha Eagle shifter runaround its empties at the Winifrede yard before shoving to the l... (more)

Easing through Winifrede proper, a pair of matching leased GATX EMD GP38-2s head for the Kanawha Eagle loadout with 28 empties for loading.

A pair of GATX Rail-leased EMD GP38-2s shuttle 28 empty CSX Transportation company hoppers up the Winifrede Railroad to Blackhawk's Kanawha Eagle for loading on Oct. 28, 2021. Fall colors are in f... (more)

The first measurable snowfall of the 2021-2022 winter season blankets West Virginia on the 6th day of January as a monster 220-car coal drag eases into river bend, illuminating the seldom photogra... (more)

A conveniently placed full moon rises over the Mt. Laurel surface mine just as a pair of GE widecabs ease around its empty hoppers before beginning the flood loading process in this lonesome south... (more)

Inspecting the track for visual obstructions prior to beginning the flood-loading process as a reverse move, a pair of GE widecabs ease around the tail end of the Coal River Subdivision and the Mt... (more)