A CSX EMD GP40-2/GP40-3 duo roll into the isolated Vaco Junction with the Gauley Trolley local having just swapped empties for loads at WV Manufacturing at nearby Alloy, W.Va. The South Cha... (more)

Approaching the transfer yard at Chesapeake, a pair of GATX Rail leased Geeps handle 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal for CSX interchange.

Two GATX-leased EMD GP38-2s chaperone 28 loads of Kanawha Eagle coal toward the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., passing a coal truck headed for Winifrede in this fall peak view from late Oc... (more)

GATX EMD GP38-2 No. 2109's blue-and-black paint scheme contrasts well against October's fall colors as the Kanawha Eagle shifter runaround its empties at the Winifrede yard before shoving to the l... (more)

Easing through Winifrede proper, a pair of matching leased GATX EMD GP38-2s head for the Kanawha Eagle loadout with 28 empties for loading.

A pair of GATX Rail-leased EMD GP38-2s shuttle 28 empty CSX Transportation company hoppers up the Winifrede Railroad to Blackhawk's Kanawha Eagle for loading on Oct. 28, 2021. Fall colors are in f... (more)

The first measurable snowfall of the 2021-2022 winter season blankets West Virginia on the 6th day of January as a monster 220-car coal drag eases into river bend, illuminating the seldom photogra... (more)

A conveniently placed full moon rises over the Mt. Laurel surface mine just as a pair of GE widecabs ease around its empty hoppers before beginning the flood loading process in this lonesome south... (more)

Inspecting the track for visual obstructions prior to beginning the flood-loading process as a reverse move, a pair of GE widecabs ease around the tail end of the Coal River Subdivision and the Mt... (more)

The tail end of the scarcely used Mt. Laurel mining spur appears to be more popular amongst the locals than it does rail traffic. Here, tucked away from civilization, this section of track represe... (more)

Light power inspects the tail end of the Mt. Laurel spur near the end of the Coal River Subdivision at Sharples. Once the track has been visually inspected by the crew, the locomotives pictured he... (more)

Hanging onto the last few days of summer as CSX GE AC440CW No. 160 marshals empty hoppers toward the Mt. Laurel loadout near Sharples, W.Va., on Sept. 18, 2021.

Summer kudzu is in full force as Mt. Laurel empties ease onto the mine's yard tracks at the end of the Coal River Subdivision at Sharples, W.Va., on Sept. 18, 2021.

Veteran GE AC4400CW No. 160 eases into the rural mining town of Sharples at the tail end of the original C&O Railway's Coal River Subdivision - about 55 miles from the mainline at St. Albans. Afte... (more)

Coal empties head for the Mt. Laurel Mining Complex at Sharples, W.Va., passing the outskirts of Madison after having just departed CSX's Danville Yard in the former C&O coalfields of southern Wes... (more)