A Conrail-powered train loads at Consolidated Coal’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia. The inner part of the loop track usually was covered with a huge coal pile, but the ground is rel... (more)

A Monongahela Railway train consigned to Wisconsin Electric begins flood loading at Consolidated Coal’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia.

Clean and colorful, the power of a Wisconsin Electric coal train starts its journey around the loop track in Wana, West Virginia.

Two Conrail SD40-2’s bring a train of empty hoppers down the Monongahela Railway’s Wana Industrial Track in Wana, West Virginia.

A Monongahela Railway train of empties with Conrail power approaches Consolidated Coal’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia.

Half loaded with coal from Consolidated Coal’s Bailey mine, a train for Wisconsin Electric will be topped off with coal from Consolidated’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia. The trai... (more)

A Wisconsin Electric coal train travels down the Wana Branch of the Monongahela Railway in Wana West Virginia. Most of the train is still across the state line in Pennsylvania.

Elephant-style Conrail SD60’s flood load a train at the Blacksburg #2 Mine in Wana, West Virginia. The unique logos on the cars indicate that they are owned by the Somerset Railroad, and will be... (more)

”You Guys Have Lunch Ready? We’re coming by!”

I’m sure that the days of warm meal preparation in the caboose was long past, but this would have been the perfect opportunity... (more)

Four Monongahela Super 7-23B’s are creeping around the loop at Blacksville Number 2 Mine, flood loading a long train of hoppers.

After decades of hauling coal from countless mines with diesels in drab black paint, The Monongahela Railway lightened up its paint scheme when it revamped its roster with eleven remanufactured fo... (more)

I Wana Get This Train Loaded

A Wisconsin Electric train begins the flood loading process at the Blacksville Number 2 Mine in Wana, West Virginia. The Super 7’s are all on the pro... (more)

This is not two trains passing on the Monongahela. Instead, this a train that is being flood loaded at Consolidated Coal Company's Blacksville #2 mine. The power is passing its own caboose as the ... (more)

If I had a dollar for every time I have gotten "puffed" by a cloud, I could probably retire a year early. On Sept. 22, 1990, I was almost certain I would be as an empty unit coal train approached... (more)

The old Conrail number is showing through on this SD60I as an engineer loads a coal train the old fashioned way at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 Mine.