What may be the end of an era. The Alco that served the Litwar "Red Ash" Tipple for many years looks to be parked for good.

Looming over the Mahanoy Creek Valley, the old Saint Nicholas breaker of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company is still relatively intact in this January, 1992 view. Built in 1932, old S... (more)

An NS mine run loads met coal at the ArcelorMittal/Mid Vol Leasing Dan's Branch loadout

West Virginia is best known for its natural beauty and natural resources. For over 100 years the hills and valleys of West Virginia have echoed with the sound of trains moving coal that built Ame... (more)

The loader at Fredericktown has been idle for years, possibly since Baldwin switchers and sharks pulled the hoppers that serviced this mine. The Monongahela's newest power approaches with empties ... (more)

Looking at the south end of town we have two truck mine tipples operations. Believe it or not there is five tracks in this photo. The first one on the left goes to the tipple with the truck in the... (more)

Gone and apparently forgotten, the old loadout (and 2 concrete feeders) still stand a short distance up Upper Burning Creek near Kermit. I believe it was opened by Wolf Creek, then acquired by A.T... (more)

An old Alco S2 or S4 converted to a remote slug works Red Ash Coals load out at Litwar W.Va.

During the Tom Moore era, excursions were a very common practice to help promote the railroad. Pulling this short excursion is CRR 200, the only F-unit that the Clinchfield owned that had an onboa... (more)

An eastbound C&O coal train lead by an SD-40 and a GP-9 enter Richmond alongside the historic James River and Kanawha canal. The SCL's James River bridge is in the background.

A westbound empty hopper train was dropping down Cranberry Grade, west of Terra Alta, WV on Oct. 24, 1977, led by C&O GP38 No. 3898. Back then I did a lot of camping by the railroad and this is f... (more)

Back in 1979, things were done a bit differently when it came to communications. A trainman had dismounted and was talking on the phone to get authority to proceed further up the Logan Subdivisio... (more)

Don't see many of these anymore stretched over a mainline railroad, as seen here over former Clinchfield rails. CSX 849 glides some MTY's downgrade under the idled Roaring Fork Tipple. However, it... (more)

A Utah Railway IPP coal train loads at the Andelex Resources Wildcat loadout a few miles west of Spring Glen, Utah. Inbound coal is trucked to the loading site, batched along the ground, sorted, a... (more)

Here's another BNSF coal train finishing the loading process at the West Black Thunder loadout.