Q433 rolls through the QR 117-120 work limits.

Q316-09 coming east on the Shortline Subdivision.

Passing the Gabriel Brothers warehouse, Q316 heads eastbound on the Shortline Sub.

Q316 passing over the Lamberts Run bridge.

CSX local A704 arrives in Dalton to work the Dalton ramp before returning north to Wauhatchie Yard.

A pair of AC00CWs run around their train of empty hoppers at Sharples, West Virginia before shoving to the Mountain Laurel loadout.

A unit train slowly loads coal at the Mountain Laurel loadout on the desolate Coal River Subdivision in Southern West Virginia.

A pair of YN2 AC4400s load coal at the massive Mountain Laurel complex near Sharples, West Virginia.

U20927 (Newport News, VA - Russell, KY) with CSX CW44AC 448 passing the C&O depot at Goshen. The station building was constructed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1947.

CSX train Q560, with an increasingly rare YN2 AC4400CW leading a plethora of other CSX power passes MP 385 on the Rochester Sub.

Well I figured getting trains on the Big Sandy would be the hardest part of my trip. Turned out 6 trains in daylight wasn't an issue. Here is my 2nd northbound load heading out of Paintsville afte... (more)

Eastbound CSX ammonia train and the BRC Rail Car yard buildings in the background. An interesting aerial view of this spot taken c.1925 can be seen at http://www.lynchburghistory.com/details.php... (more)

There is no doubt that the C&O Alleghany Grade is the Feather River Canyon of the East...

448 is coming off Coal River with loads, under Kanawha Terr. (Old Rt. 60) and past the Little League ball field.

Southbound Grain train in the Valley near WIlliamsburg