Helper set entering the engine facility back when the yard was huge, coal trains were frequent and the skyline in the background was vastly different.

Part of a string of power awaiting assignment at the home of the old Interstate Railroad. These days the place is far less busy and a four-axle is very rare.

A C6M serves as rear DPU of hopper train NS 779 as it thunders west over Coopers Trestle.

The Wabash heritage unit passes over Elkhorne Creek in Kimball, WV with NS 119.

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.

R283 (Shelby, KY. - Shelby, KY.) heads South through Fords Branch, KY. as the approach CSXT's Shelby Yard in Shelbiana, KY.

Norfolk Southern train U52 rolls down the mountain at Hurley, VA on the Buchanan Branch. They'd meet #794 just ahead at Lester Fork and then tie down at Pine Oaks for the day.

SD70ACC 1811 leads NS 194 east through Huger, Wv on the Pokey.

U52 passes under the unique cantilever at Lester Fork, bringing tidewater loads towards the Pokey main at Ought One.

EX Conrail NS 8379 exits the Twin Branch Tunnel in Davy, WV with a loaded coal train bound for Bluefield Yard.

Following closely behind a 776, an eastbound work train exits the West Vivian Tunnel with a former Conrail SD40-2 doing the honors.

U14 has just left the main at Sprigg and creeps along up the Alma Branch, between WV Route 49 and the Tug Valley Country Club Golf Course. This light movement, with a C40-8W and NS 1069, the Virgi... (more)

Dropping downgrade into the small community of Hurley, Virginia, NS westbound loaded train U60 passes the unique N&W signals in Hurley on the Buchanan Branch.

Norfolk Southern heritage unit 8099 pushes coal loads through Welch, West Virginia.

NS U52 slowly rolls over Mudlick Creek at the upper end of Roda. The crew has picked up 34 snow covered "yellow ball" loads at Roda and will continue eastward and pick up another 32 "yellow balls"... (more)