A pair of ex-NS SD60s kick up the leaves as they shove a coal train north through a valley of fall color.

After heading north and away from sunlight for most of its run, KN381 finally turns west and into the setting sun in New Lex.

Though the scene looks like Norfolk Southern, this is all Kanawha River Railroad's operation. Run-through power from NS and UP head up a coal train, while patched ex-NS SD60s wait to shove trains ... (more)

With shadows encroaching, 380 breaks through the treeline and hits a sunny patch at sunset.

As a kid growing up in Athens, I spent hours some days waiting at Armitage hoping for a train. Most of the time nothing showed up, but when I was lucky enough to catch a train, it made all the wai... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad GP39-2 No. 3901 hangs out in Nitro as a summer thunderstorm rolls across the Kanawha Valley, leaving behind flash flooding and quite a lightning show.

Two former NS SD60s wait for another coal train to shove up or down the Secondary.

Two blue SD60s rumble south with a manifest in the fading light of the day.

A Watco GP39-2 switches at Nitro on the KNWA.

A pair of Watco-painted EMD SD40-2Ms lead northbound Kanawha River Railroad freight KN 381 through West Virginia's capitol city of Charleston.

Led by two Watco-painted EMD SD40-2MS, the northbound KN 381 rolls through Belle, W.Va., on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad in West Virginia.

A meet in Nitro? Really? Just like the good 'ole days, KN 380 takes the siding a Nitro while a northbound NS-powered coal train holds the main as two trains meet on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad ... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad southbound freight KN 381 rolls through the small town of Poca led by Watco-painted EMD SD40-2M No. 412 and a leased CEFX bluebird SD60.

Milder temperatures in February brought West Virginia an early, albeit temporary, spring season. Here, Kanawha River Railroad's southbound 380 passes through Dunbar, W.Va., on its way to Dickinson... (more)

Operating with hand signals, Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35 No. 3901 switches on the south end of Dickinson Yard during the first onset of spring.