Westbound on the Pokey main with empties for the coalfields, NS ES40DC No. 7633 passes the NS Clinch Valley District Jct., still protected by N&W CPL's.

Westbound ethanol empties cross the Coopers viaduct on their descent over Elkhorn grade. Slicing through tunnels and across bridges, the vibrant BNSF/CSX consist will make much of its assault acro... (more)

NS' Reading heritage SD70ACe leads NS 18M east at Oakvale under threatening skies. An extended winter has delayed the onset of Spring and despite April only being days away, brown foliage continue... (more)

Descending East River mountain with NS' Reading heritage SD70ACe leading, NS 18M slithers east along the N&W mainline to Roanoke from Bluefield.

Destined for the Bakken oil fields to retrieve another unit train of crude, a pair of BNSF widecabs lead K081 west through C&O's Meadow Creek.

The daily ritual... Idling in the siding at Nitro, northbound NS 381 has completed its yard work at Nitro and is ready to depart to the north. NS 380, led by a Union Pacific ES44AC eases by its no... (more)

With empties in tow, CSXT No. 537 leads a Brooks Run train into the east portal of Jones Tunnel, westbound on the A&O Cowen Subdivision to Burnsville.

Descending 17 mile grade, CSX Q316 and its western visitors slither along the former B&O Mountain Subdivision on their late evening trip from Grafton to Cumberland.

Routed via the former B&O Sandpatch mainline, a westbound crude oil empty from Philadelphia gallops through downtown Rockwood on its crew run from Cumberland to Connesville.

Deadheading east to Altoona from Conway, Norfolk Southern's A-B-B set of executive F9's lead a business train through downtown Pittsburgh eastbound on the PRR mainline.

Eastbound on the former C&O mainline, K080-03 eases into the curve at Sandstone on its trek across the snow covered New River Gorge to Hinton. The 100 train of crude oil is enroute to a Yorktown, ... (more)

Gliding along the New River at Meadow Creek, eastbound crude oil loads pass an assortment of crossovers once protected by C&O's MD cabin at the site of the former C&O/NF&G interchange.

After unloading crude oil at a refinery in Yorktown, empties roll westbound through Kenova underneath N&W's Portsmouth to Williamson mainline.

Descending from Scary Hill, eastbound crude oil loads ease into the curve approaching W.E. Dock. New oil trains have introduced foreign power to the C&O for the first time in many years. Destined ... (more)

Eastbound on the NS Kenova District to Williamson from Portsmouth, a former Santa Fe Warbonnet leads NS I72 through Prichard. Foreign power throughout West Virginia has been exceptionally common t... (more)