Originally built as MILW 189 in 1974, WE 7355 is currently being rebuilt by the W&LE. Several "AWVR 1206" panels from the movie Unstoppable... (more)
W&LE run through coke train passes 3 parked coal trains stored in the Mill Yard. 2 coal trains are for power plants located on CSX's Pope's Creek Sub. The 3rd is for Dickerson, MD, and the coke is... (more)
All is quiet today at Rook Yard as power lay's over till the next trip.
Photographing one train on the east end of the W&LE is a good day, catching two in the same afternoon is a rarity. Less than two hours after a local freight passed through, a westbound empty hopp... (more)
The east end of the W&LE has been very busy lately, as coke and ore trains have been interchanged with CSX in Connellsville. A westbound empty hopper train is seen here, a few miles east of Sudan... (more)
The southbound W&LE local out of Glenwillow glides across the Cuyahoga River and CSX New Castle Sub in the early winter. The train occupying the New Castle Sub currently, is E454-29. It would take... (more)
Wheeling power sits in the yard at Carey just West of the Wheeling Yard office waiting for their next trip East.
Having come from Toledo during the night and making the shuffle through Bellevue, Wheeling train 224 is back on home rails now.
A perfect match for the blue and white sky, one of the Wheeling's unrebuilt SD40-2s leads an imported slab train through Castle Shannon.
Encroaching foliage makes it tough to shoot the twin bridges at Morgan, a small town several miles west of Bridgeville.
The loaded slab train pulls across the big bridge at the west end of Rook as he gets in the clear for a meet with an eastbound.
A cloud of exhaust escapes from the 7355 as he pops out of the short tunnel at Hickory, one of several between Rook and Mingo Jct.
Shortly before 2PM, the slab train resumes his trip to Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel.
7355 leads his train of slabs into Rook where he'll wait for an empty coke train to arrive before continuing west on the old P&WV.
When I took this photo I was looking at the train, I didn't even see the funeral procession until I downloaded the shots onto my computer.
