A patched NS caboose, of Norfolk & Western heritage. You'll always find a couple stored at the Cedar siding, awaiting backup coal loading service on the Delorem Branch.

Timed freight 274 enters downtown Matewan between the huge floodwalls erected around the low lying city.

NS 857 sits idling with a load of mtys awaiting signal work to finish just around the corner at Nolan. The Fall colors are beyond peak on the rocky, steep, WV hills.

With lead motor problems and a sliver of daylight left along the Tug Fork, 77A has just been told to limp to Williamson with their mtys.

At dusk a loaded coal drag crawls off the Buchanan Branch at Ought-One, WV. Another loaded coal drag waits it's turn to head east up the long, grueling grade. One must take care along this section... (more)

A closeup study of a leased SD40-2 freshly painted with a bevy of horns on top. The MOW train is preparing a backup as a track worker checks out the Tug Fork in the distance.

With grain sprouting between the iron and the redbuds in full bloom, the first of four northbounds rounds the curve at Habersham. A southbound will hold at either Savoy or Chaska.

Bluefield Service, used for storing ties and scrap iron by the MOW trains. This ancient gondola has seen better days and shows the ravages of time.

Preparing to climb aboard the caboose and back up the Gilbert Branch to Bens Creek, a brakeman does a rollby as minerun U98 eases up to the switch. Cabs are still in use on most Pocahontas branche... (more)

NS 76G runs gently over jointed rail at National Coals Turley facility. Mountains of stockpiled coal can be seen in the background beside the storage silo, no longer used.

A ribbon rail train lays out welded rail, sandwiched between the bluffs of War Eagle and the Tug Fork river on the state line. The extreme curves of this remote and rugged area cause heavy wear on... (more)

Westbound 147 shuffles along the rock bluffs of the Pokey and by a sea of spring color with the redbuds in full bloom.

Standing guard at Devon, WV for loaded coal and coke trains coming off the Buchanan Branch. Devon has to be one of the most remote and wild sections of the Pokey, being nearly impossible to access... (more)

In the never ending daily parade, a unit coal train of mtys heads back north to the coalfields of KY/TN. Only one engne is required most days for mtys up the steep grade of the Cumberlands, though... (more)

With loaded coal cars off the Delorme trailing behind in the steep elevated curve, minerun U14 prepares to get underway again. Spring has just started to touch the narrow Tug Fork valley on this l... (more)