If you like GP30's and 35s, Elkins was a great place to be in the late 80's!
Almost everything in this scene has changed, but there is one constant - coal still remains king at Grafton.
317 emerges from Kingwood Tunnel, one of only two bores on the Mountain Sub. The original tunnel (long abandoned) from the line's construction in 1849 still stands, to the left of the present tun... (more)
CSXT 4310 in Gilford Rail System paint.
A coal drag with a nice duo of SCL and Chessie units occupies the yard at Keyser. For many years, Keyser was a large terminal on the B&O's West End - the area to the left of the train was once pa... (more)
10 minutes later the sun was behind a mountain and this scene was in the shade
A matched set of three Chessie SD50's lead a coal train, loaded at Grafton WV, under the old Western Maryland main east of Mexico Tower.
Westbound (Timetable South) on CR-B&O Joint Trackage