Tied down on the tail track at Nitro's small industrial yard, former Southern Railway EMD GP38-2 high hood is silhouetted against threatening storm clouds as a thunderstorm moves northeast across ... (more)

On a damp and humid summer evening in the Kanawha Valley, original Southern high hood GP38-2 No. 5043 idles on the pit track at Nitro, silhouetted against the fading evening light. Some of Norfolk... (more)

Disrupting the silence in downtown Nitro at the early morning hour of 2am, a severe thunderstorm rolls across the Kanawha Valley, bringing with it an impressive lightning show. The single yard eng... (more)

The daily ritual.. Nitro based local, NS J1J has just returned from the Par Industrial Park with pickups for NS 381. The local serves numerous industries in Par, including a scrap yard, numerous c... (more)

The NS local works the industrial park as members of a local union protest near by.

The AM Nitro Yard job idles on the WV Secondary mainline at Nitro, after switching out cars at the Institute Chemical Complex.

The local stops out front of the Nitro yard office.

Built for the Southern Railway in October of 1974, numbered SOU 5158F, NS 5158 idles in Nitro assigned to NS J1J. High hoods are a common sight along the former Conrail West Virginia Secondary, as... (more)

A daily routine, Nitro based local, NS J1J has just arrived at local customer, AC&S. Specializing it the manufacturing of a variety of chemicals and tank car cleaning, NS J1J serves actively switc... (more)

Rebuilt in February of 2003 from N&W 4139, NS 5562 leads the southbound Nitro based local, NS J1J through the North End of Nitro Yard after returning from Special Metals in Rock Branch. The train ... (more)

The crew of the local shoves two cars that they picked up from RJ Recycling in Nitro into the yard.

After enjoying a morning of photographing trains across the Kanawha River on CSX's Kanawha and Coal River Subdivisions, I enjoyed an afternoon lunch at Diehl's Restaurant in downtown Nitro. Upon c... (more)

It's a quiet afternoon in the yard at Nitro as local job NS J1J switches out a cut of cars for the inbound NS 380. With much of the NS WV Secondary single track, the northbound NS 381 can be seen ... (more)

On a very comfortable 60 degree Valentine's Day, NS 5158 operating on NS J1J switches the Nitro Yard in preparation for the arrival of NS 380.

Preparing to switch out a cut of cars in the Nitro Yard, NS J1J idles on the pit during a snow squall.