On a dreary October evening in the declining community of Keystone, an eastbound loaded drag charges upgrade with a train of West Virginia black diamonds. Keystone serves as a great example of a c... (more)

Pushers rattle the windows in downtown Keystone on a quite Sunday morning.

NS 9709 leads 3 other units with a loaded grain hopper train through a snowstorm in Keystone, WV

After pushing one up the Grade, this pusher set heads back to Farm to repeat the job all over again.

Coal passing coal. Empty hopper train 755 passes the large prep plant at Keystone.

I'd always wanted this shot at Keystone but it never seemed to come about due to trackwork.

With the tunnel construction curfew out of the way for the day 17M follows the fleet of westbounds already ahead past the coal prep plant at Keystone.

Bearing the coal dust of a hard days work and strapped in, a worker cautiously releases the brake allowing a Top Gon to roll downhill under the coal loadout. In this modern day it's hard to believ... (more)

Running long hood forward, a worktrain idles away in Keystone as traffic builds for the assault up Elkhorn Grade. After clearing, it was back to back for eastbounds going up the grade.

Engineer has just been dropped off, and is unlocking one of the new ES44AC's, which are being tested in pusher service.

Pushers roll through the sleepy little town of Keystone.

Two pusher sets roll down hill to the rescue of two freights near Welch.

NS J51 pushers shoving eastbound loaded coal train U9W on main #1 through Keystone, WV. Click... (more)

A former CNW SD60, now part of the HLCX lease fleet, leads westbound 83G by the large coal facility at Keystone. The two light engines are going west to Hull to pick up 50 Tidewater coal loads to ... (more)

The one unit wonder pusher on the rear of 194 passes the prep plant at Keystone on its slow journey up to the top of the Elkhorn grade.