With a derailment down near the New River Gorge Bridge, a short work train crawls past the Thurmond Depot. News reports would reveal that a grain hopper picked a switch sending two hoppers over th... (more)

A morning eastbound passes endangered C&O sentinels as it disturbs the quiet of Thurmond, WV. Soon, another relic of Thurmond will be gone forever.

A nice duo of YN2 dash-8s take Richmond to Cincinnati manifest Q303 west through Thurmond on a beautiful summer evening. The depot, restored and run by the park's service, can be seen on the right... (more)

A once thriving town on the banks of the New River in southern West Virginia, Thurmond, in its heyday, was known as 'The Heart of the New River Gorge'. While most of the original infrastructure in... (more)

A view from above as CSX SD50 #8616 leads work train W043 through Thurmond, WV at the end of the work day.

A splash of diffused evening sun illuminates the power of westbound mixed freight, CSX Q303 as it rolls along the New River Gorge at Thurmond.

In a predominantly coal-driven region, a trio of western visitors sneak through southern West Virginia under the cover of darkness with a unit train of Bakken crude oil in tow. Illuminated with se... (more)

An empty hopper train idles in front of the old Thurmond depot and semaphore while waiting for a work train to clear up. The train was stopped a few miles back after a defect detector caught the l... (more)

A coal train splits the once bustling railroad town of Thurmond, now a popular tourist attraction in the heart of the New River Gorge. The old C&O cantilever, coaling tower, and abandoned downtown... (more)

Hopper train E511-03 holds at Thurmond to meet a work train after checking out a defect on their 150th car. The detector east of Thurmond caught them, so knowing the territory, I highballed to a C... (more)

Coal drag U276-03 works hard upgrade at Thurmond, passing the 1922 coaling tower, C&O signal cantilever, and downtown main street area. Though Thurmond is now maintained by the National Park Servi... (more)

A coal train is parked on the siding at Rush Run as humid evening set in along the New River at Thurmond. The dispatcher has just lined up an eastbound coal train at Thurmond after a westbound emp... (more)

An eastbound CSX manifest lights up the clear indication at the east end of Thrumond.

Westbound manifest passes through under the C&O cantilever and the abandoned buildings of downtown Thrumond.

A former Santa Fe warbonnet takes crude oil to Virginia