Norfolk & Western J-Class 4-8-4 No. 611 leads Sunday's Spencer, N.C., to Asheville, N.C., and return public excursion across the Southern Railway's famous Old Fort loops during the first hint of s... (more)

After departing Lynchburg, Va., Norfolk & Western J-Class No. 611 leads its first public excursion of the 2016 season southbound on the railroad's ex- Southern Railway Danville District at Altavis... (more)

With 35 loads of coal in tow, a pair of GE's catch the last glimpse of evening sun as they descend the Claypool loops on the original Nicholas, Fayette, and Greenbrier Railroad (NF&G) in rural sou... (more)

NS 188 leads three other motors down the N&W Kenova District near Webb, W.Va., on the evening of March 10, 2016.

Admittedly bias towards the coalfields of the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Louisville & Nashville KD Subdivision gave the C&O a good run for its money in terms of tedious mountain grades, rural landscap... (more)

The definition of a hollow... In a typical West Virginia scene, two mountain ridges tower over an obscure coal railroad and a creek.. Here, near the end of CSX's Coal River Subdivision, app... (more)

Led by a trio of EMD locomotives, NS 381, operating as train No. 610 follows the Kanawha River north toward the W.Va./Ohio border on its final run across the railroad's ex-Conrail West Virginia Se... (more)

Rolling through Winfield, NS 381, operating as NS No. 610 makes a final jaunt over NS' ex-Conrail West Virginia Secondary. Soon, 100 miles of this original NYC route will be idled as NS concentrat... (more)

The end of an era... The final NS 381, operating as NS train No. 610 rolls through Poca, northbound on NS' West Virginia Secondary. Soon, this route will be shuttered as NS looks to consoli... (more)

The end of an era... The final NS 381, operating as NS train No. 610 makes its final northbound pickup in the small industrial yard of Nitro on the ex-Conrail West Virginia Secondary. As th... (more)

Spanning an old wooden trestle, the DPU of an eastbound KCS manifest crosses the Louisiana backwaters of Sibley, Louisiana, eastbound on KCS' Vicksburg Subdivision along what is defined as the ... (more)

A pair of Watco lease units switch out tank and covered hopper cars at the Louisiana Southern's Minden yard. Traveling from the north, it was a welcoming sight to see blue skies and green sky duri... (more)

Coupled against a former Conrail GE B40-8, a CSX Huntington-rebuild GP38-3 No. 2018 rests at CSX's 16th Street yard in Huntington, bunkered down for inclement weather brought to us by Winter Storm... (more)

On the eve of what would become the region's worst winter storm in more than decades, veteran CSX GE B40-8 No. 5951 idles up against nearby Huntington, W.Va. rebuilt GP38-3 No. 2018 at the railroa... (more)

The biggest storm since '95...That's what the locals are saying anyway... With more than 18" of fresh powder blanketing the C&O mainline, high priority CSX Q136 tunnels through snow drifts from Wi... (more)