Like ships in a storm, KN380 is in the trough of a wave of erosion flung uphill from the Ohio River. This piece of railroad, through various owners, has always been a battleground, as evidenced by... (more)

On a bone-chilling night, two EMDs under different flags idle in Hobson. Come morning, they will bring KN380 south through Charleston.

KN380 rumbles across 13 mile Creek in Leon, which fittingly empties here into the Kanawha River.

A quartet of EMD SD60's from Watco's Kanawha River Railroad operation assist a loaded NS coal train down the 1.61% grade at Hotchkiss,WV.

Six Watco SD60's and two NS GE's bring empties north for loading at Quincy

Six Kanawha River Railroad SD60's lead a pair of NS GE's and coal empties for Quincy out of Jenny Gap Tunnel

A handful of KNWA SD60s sits at the fueling racks in Dickenson Yard awaiting their next assignment.

A northbound manifest has stopped in Nitro, West Virginia and is working the yard to pick up and set off cars from its train on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. This railroad rosters a fleet of ex-... (more)

KN381 peers through Wilson Tunnel, the third of six tunnels it will pass through on its run to Columbus.

The mountains are still glowing as the sun sinks lower behind them, while WAMX 3921 waits for its next job in Dickinson Yard. The former Western Maryland GP35 may not be on its home rails, but it ... (more)

Deep in the woods, all three rebuilt SD45s on the KNWA thunder out of Langsville Tunnel on their way north.

Back in Conrail days, the West Virginia Secondary was comparatively humming. So much so, that they installed a siding in Carpenter for helpers to duck into between shoving coal trains up the line.... (more)

A break in the clouds lights up KN380 as they roll south through the barren winter landscape.

Engulfed in an atmosphere of pure mountain railroading, KN37 shoves hard on the rear of 110 car loaded coal train KN33 with 4 former NS SD60s doing the honors at Harper, WV. The train is drawing e... (more)

Kanawha River Railroad's KN37 puts on a show over Sweeneysburg trestle as four ex NS SD60s dig-in hard against 110 loads of West Virginian black diamonds. Coal train KN33 and its associated KN37 p... (more)