A&O crew using CSX power about to start loading at Sentinel Mine.

“Cat Ears”
A massive westbound hopper train, in 5+3+0 configuration, exits the 993-foot Carothers Tunnel on the famed Magnolia Cutoff, which was opened for business by the B&O in 191... (more)

Precision Locomotive Leasing SD35 #7536 sits at the end of a tail track at the WMSR shops awaiting its next call to duty.

After emerging from the tunnel through the mountains and passing through the floodwall gate, an empty Norfolk Southern coal train rolls through West Williamson, West Virginia behind a pair of ES40... (more)

A northbound manifest has stopped in Nitro, West Virginia and is working the yard to pick up and set off cars from its train on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad. This railroad rosters a fleet of ex-... (more)

The morning sun rises on a pair of SW1200's at the Little Kanawha River Railroad in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This small shortline serves about 3 miles on industrial customers on former B&O trac... (more)

The fireman for the Durbin Rocket, led by Steam 3-Truck Heisler number 6, uses the top of the broom handle to press down on a valve and release steam before the train departs.

The Durbin Rocket, led by Steam 3-Truck Heisler number 6, pulls into the station to pick up passengers for the 10:00 am departure. The color of the fall trees made for a very memorable and scenic... (more)

Fall colors came early to WV this year. Today's Durbin Rocket returns to the depot to drop its passengers off, filling the river valley with coal smoke.

Well worn CSX Dash 8 7764 leads empty coal train E900 as it takes the diverging route through the EEDT control point, the east end of the double track at the start of the Logan Sub in Barboursvill... (more)

Rolling under Highway 52 as they emerge from Tunnel 1 south of Kermit, West Virginia, a pair of ES40DC's lead empty coal train 851 east on the NS Kenova District. While the line once had seven tun... (more)

An evening job on the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad has departed from the yard behind a trio of GP's and is climbing the approach trestle towards the Ohio River bridge in Parkersburg, Wes... (more)

CSX mine run R211 has arrived at the coal loadout for the Logan County Complex in Pardee, West Virginia and is nearly done pulling its train of empties uphill under the loading tower. The Logan Co... (more)

An evening crew is working in some golden hour sun on the Kanawha River Terminal Railroad as they shove a train of empty hoppers through the coal loader at the docks in Ceredo, West Virginia. The ... (more)

A pair of GEVO's emerge from Tunnel 3 in Kermit, West Virginia as they lead an empty coal train east on the NS Kenova District. While the line once had seven tunnels along it route, three of them ... (more)