Power sits and waits to be put back on the empty coal train to head west.

RAILROADERS: They do more before 8 AM then some people do all day! His work complete, the Ohio Central engineer climbs down from NS 1060. In a few hours, a Norfolk Southern engineer will climb a... (more)

What was once the PRR's Panhandle Mainline to St. Louis is now used as an interchange between NS and the Ohio Central. An OC crew has just brought this NS coal train into the interchange on the G... (more)

Heritage engine of the original Norfolk Southern.

SD40-2's 3333 and 3384 spend the night at Mingo.

5413 cools his heels at Mingo before proceeding west with a short train from Rook.

Mill switchers sit idle at the Mingo Plant during one of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel's many labor disputes.

This desolate scene at Mingo sums up the state of the US economy and steel industry in the spring of 2009.

Still showing Penn Central Livery but now working for Conrail, the mightiest of the mighty were hard to put out of service. The big Alcos noted for slow heavy hauling ended up in mineral freight s... (more)

Another railroad that has taken big steps towards uniformity; a pair of WE GP35s are seen here switching Mingo Yard. Train is in Ohio, photographer is in West Virginia.

Steel mills and railroads can often be mentioned in the same breath. That point is demonstrated here by WPSX 1551 and the NS Ohio River Secondary in the foreground of the former Wheeling-Pitt Stee... (more)