A new C6M leads a coal train east out of Bluefield, WV.

A new C6M leads a coal train east through Ada, WV.

Eastbound grain train, the whine of dynamic brakes and just nature otherwise. I liked those SD35s. Odd that exactly none ever got NS paint.

Empties Through Capels | Two AC44C6M rebuild units lead westbound empty coal train 811 past the community of Capels, WV on the gloomy afternoon of Monday, December 18, 2023.

Mountain Town Railroading | A pair of engines lead a westbound train of autorack cars through the town of Welch, WV on a misty Monday, December 18, 2023 morning.

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

A former Southern unit is the last one in a helper string about to cut off. Hard to believe NS is well past its 40th birthday.

After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)

Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Empty auto train 27V navigates its way through the yard at Bluefield on a cloudy morning in the mountains

With no further work till Cumberland, CSX Q217 (empty auto racks, Philadelphia, PA-Louisville, KY), slips unmolested by Hancock yard on No. 1 Main in mid-afternoon. Configured 1+2+0, the power con... (more)

As the clouds lift, and the moon peaks through the darkness, NS 826 breaks the silence of a snow covered Coopers WV, over the duration of a 15 second exposure.

A 2 and a half second exposure shows NS 41N picking up speed as it exits the Coopers tunnel and crosses the massive trestle at Coopers. Making its way towards of Elkhorn Tunnel, just as the sun di... (more)

Like ships in a storm, KN380 is in the trough of a wave of erosion flung uphill from the Ohio River. This piece of railroad, through various owners, has always been a battleground, as evidenced by... (more)

With some foreign power in the lead, Norfolk Southern 64D makes it's way across the Kenova Viaduct in Kenova West Virginia.