The evening DuPont Local departs out of the Low Yard in Parkersburg, climbing up the bridge over the Point Park area and Little Kanawha River, with a solo GP38-3 rebuild on point.

Empty hoppers on their way back to the mines roll west out of the Baltimore & Ohio's yard at Grafton, WV, on a summer afternoon, behind an F7/SD9/GP9 lashup.

Prior for departure for the Lake Shore Railroad Museum, freshly repainted C&O B30-7 8272 sits outside the CSX Huntington Locomotive Shops on a cool March evening.

Northbound manifest Q542 has just passed Sinks and the former Lebanon Branch connection and is about to enter Tunnel 18 on the scenic CC Subdivision.

It's early evening on a cold winter's day in Hinton, WV as former C&O GP40-2, 4386, takes a spin on the turntable.

These days they seem to be easing around on switchers and locals but back then the best unit ever built was charging down the main trailing a little railfan potpourri and roaring like lion. This ... (more)

A slug set and another pair of units for local power sit at the C&O Sandy Hook Yard near the coaling tower as another yard job toils on with an SD50-3 for power.

The slug is a former B&O GP3... (more)

An eastbound unit grain train crosses into West Virginia from Kentucky across the Big Sandy River. A fresh rebuilt EMD SD40-2 No. 4088 is leading the Virginia-bound grain train.

CSX's business train locomotive fleet are seen at Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Two westbound trains are parked in the yard at Russell, waiting on crews to take the trains west towards Cincinnati and/or Columbus. The yard was downgraded earlier this year & most yard operatio... (more)

An SD60 on the point at Tunnel 18, on the former L&N, now CSX CC Sub. A couple old mine shafts are to the right near the line.

Two veteran CSX SD70MAC's are chugging along with 130 hoppers in tow bound for the coalfields of southeastern KY. At right, the American Electric Power Big Sandy Generating Station, at one time a... (more)

The pusher of the Lexington Branch trash train has crested the slight grade west of Ashland and is now ducking into the modified Ashland tunnel, less than a mile from the junction with the Kanawha... (more)

Two friends and I took a long weekend trip to Mingo Junction, Ohio in search of six-axle Alco Centuries. We found a lot of our desired quarry was in the engine terminal, but very little on active ... (more)

Shortly after Conrail’s formation, the Mingo Junction/Wierton area was celebrated as a stronghold for Alco Centuries in ore service. It was also a good place to see first generation power, like ... (more)