Youngster is more concerned with hooking a big one than the SD40-2 howling in full dynamic crossing beside him.

A weathered ExConrail Dash-8 fills the quiet valley with the unmistakable sound of GE chugging as it leads a newer GEVO and 98 coal loads in 2 month old NS hoppers on the Manor Branch.

Coal loads from Ohio Valley Coal's Powhatan #6 mine are seen here headed to a transloading facility on the Ohio River as they pass through one of the cuts on the scenic Captina Secondary.

Maersk unit looks a little weathered now that the paint scheme has a few years on it.

Consecutively numbered SD40-2's 3329 & 3330 lead this steel coil train along the Ohio River. The 3329 is the ex Conrail 6358 the first SD40-2 purchased new by them in June of 1977. (Painted into t... (more)

Slab train passes dozens of stored molten metal pots that are no longer used, & awaiting disposition now that Mittal's Weirton operation has closed the "hot end" of the mill.

Snow flies up beside the lead ES44AC as the main reservoir spitter valve pops just as I snap the photo. This train has 130 loads and is headed North on the Manor Branch after loading at Bailey Mi... (more)

SD40-2 with a rather dirty horsehead paint job crosses Captina Creek.

You can really still smell the fresh paint on this one. * Only 3 ES40DC units were delivered in the 9900 series of #'s This unit was renumbered to 7503 a few days after the photo *.

Black is Beautiful : The crisp spring colors of the countryside are divided by the black engines, cars, and commodity of this Norfolk Southern unit coal train.

The Maersk unit leads loads from Murray Energy's New Century Mine enroute to Ohio Valley Transloading's Powhatan Harbor. These coal cars will be dumped into barges on the Ohio River.

Loaded slab train passes old molten metal pots now stored awaiting an uncertain fate. Mittal announced closing of the "hot end" of the plant in Dec. 2005 bringing to an end the need of these ladle... (more)

A look a the Mittal Weirton plant (formerly Weirton Steel). These units are stored awaiting their fate since this Mill stopped making their own steel from raw materials.

** This photo landed me the May spot in the 2006 Norfolk Southern Calendar** A GP50 & GP38-2 lead local T50 east out of Natural Tunnel. The tunnel is 850 feet long , 100 - 175 feet high.

A hill run climbs up over Garwood trestle as spring has sprung on the Princeton Deepwater District.