Former Southern caboose on display at Sadieville, Ky.

NB GALX mtys for Typo exit the tunnel at Langford on the CC (KY) Subdivision.

It's 10:30AM but the sun has yet to burn through the heavy mountain fog hanging in the hollar as a former SD45 leads a Sandy Valley Shifter under the flood loader at Myra.

A C232 helper set shoves the rear of SB U406 across the Russell Fork at Elkhorn City on the Big Sandy Subdivision. The old Pin Truss span on the left has since been replaced by a boring deck span... (more)

Now there's something you don't see everyday! A Tri-state Salvage truck hauls a damaged NS Top Gon up US-23 toward their operations inside Russell Yards. The hopper was damaged in a mishap near ... (more)

A SB mty GALX train for Leatherwood crosses Howards Creek Viaduct on the EK Subdivision. The covered hoppers on the headend contain ANFO for surface mining and will be dropped at at Combs just sh... (more)

A look at a dying breed. The single car loader at Dan's Branch is one of only a handful still active along the Pokey and her branches.

WB exits Williamson Tunnel on the Pokey mainline

Lite engines idle in the cold evening at RU Cabin. Western end of the Kanawha Subdivision.

A mine run for the Pevler Complex snakes past a slide fence deep in the valley along Wolf Creek.

It never fails, everytime I venture into WV I find someone trying to prove Darwin right. My bet was on 18N and the engineer looks like he is considering dropping her into emergency. This one was... (more)

A former Island Creek Coal Company slug prepares to start flood loading a cut of NS TopGons at Deskins, deep in the heart of Appalachia.

Alco mine critter in use at Clinchfield Coal's McClure River Prep Plant. Unit had formally been used at the massive Ranger Fuel's Beckley No. 2 Mine at Sabine, WV.

SB Q211 returns to daylight at the southern portal of twin-bored Grant's Tunnel on the KY Subdivision.

EB mine run out of Toms Creek crosses a high trestle on the way to St Paul