A single geep throttles up, rounding the curves into Butlerville. This scene is pure B&O...for now. The signals at Butlerville just to the east are facing replacement, and these may well follow.
As the bridge indicates, this line was once double-tracked as Hocking Valley's mainline to the heart of its coal traffic in Nelsonville. Today, the line becomes choked with weeds when summer comes... (more)
13.4 miles left to Berkeley Run Junction, and three A&O geeps are hauling 80 loads of coal past the intermediate signals in Phillipi. This line is the last place to find B&O CPLs in West Virginia,... (more)
Do you think they lose cable every time a train passes? I'd live there anyway, gladly! Three A&O geeps arrive in Alexander to pick up 80 cars of West Virginia coal from the Beech Mountain.