Crossing U.S. Highway 23, CSX helpers shove hard on a coal train at Speers Ferry, Virginia, on May 12, 2014.
A cloudy and dreary day sets the mood as a eastbound coal train passes under the old signals on there last day of operation. In less then 24 hours they would be gone and the scene will at Cotton H... (more)
Two trains wait to make their way up the old B&O now A&O on the way to Grafton, WV where they will be interchanged back to CSX
CSX general manifest train Q302 (Russell, KY to Richmond, VA) is stopped, waiting to enter and work Sandy Hook Yard at 8:15 am. Behind the locomotives, is a large cut of empty woodchip hoppers fro... (more)
The old signals at mile post 338 known as Boiler House are just dumped in a pile waiting to be taken to the scrap yard. Just 48 hours earlier and those intermediate signals would have been control... (more)
the M&K helper pushes against 80 Eastbound loads at Kingwood Tunnel near the top of Newburg Grade.
Two GE's are navigating the constant sharp turns that are a trademark of the former NF&G RR, which was little more than a paper railroad jointly controlled by the NYC and C&O.
CSX 778 holds at Brooks waiting for the New River Train to head west out of Hinton.