As fall colors near their peak a pair of AC4400CW's power an empty hopper train south exiting the south portal of the Stateline Tunnel. This train will load at one of the mines on the Dante distri... (more)

A matching set of painted WM GP30's trail along behind the long fall foliage special pulled by WMSR 2-8-0 734. A smoke plume can be seen in the distance.

Miracles do happen. These western visitors were spotted as they entered into Shelby as they were bringing loads of WB coal off of the SV&E Sub.

Just south of MP 10 is Hills Mills Bridge. Although this location is accessible the area itself is fairly remote. Just north of here the Splash Dam coal loader use to operate years past. It is now... (more)

Seen from the eastern most end of the Pikeville Cut Through this eastbound loaded coal train is sporting 4 locomotives on this September morning. This is quite an unusual sight.

The Heartland Corridor Inspection Train is seen here moving westbound on the Kenova District from SR 52. From a distance it almost favors the " Southern Crescent". Nice.

As many times as railbuffs have photographed trains on Copper Creek Viaduct I have often heard that newer angles are becoming tougher and tougher to find. With that in mind I decided to do somethi... (more)

The "Capital Limited" wastes no time as it makes its morning arrival in Cumberland.

As darkness falls this set of light helpers pass the signal bridge at Lilly as they run uphill back to the Cresson Engine House to await for another push and assist.

Southbound pusher 70 is leaning in hard with 8 notches to assist in moving heavy tonnage up the grade through the Breaks and then on through Towers. Fall foliage is really starting to show here in... (more)

2 GE's lift this eastbound coal drag with nearly 20,000 tons of West Virginia's bituminous coal up the .57% grade towards Big Bend tunnel and points east. The old C&O still lives...

The last run of the day is seen here passing the crossing at Kings Rd. Aiming for the backlit silhouette photo I was mildly discouraged when the sun was covered by a front of clouds. However, I di... (more)

This engineer is looking for track conditions ahead as he departs the station at Roanoke for points east. Special thanks to the Virginia Museum of Transportation and Lerro Productions for another ... (more)

This work train traverses his way down the loops as he is about ready to pass the Andrews Geyser. You see where he will be down on the right of the picture whenever he gets down to the bottom of t... (more)

A WMSR (Carl Franz) photo freight charges downgrade at Helmstetter's during the 2013 winter charter.