The Grafton to Cumberland local passes through what’s left of the Keyser yard while the Chessie System heritage locomotive awaits a crew to take empties West.
Seaboard heritage visits Keyser
BNSF 4645 leads CSX Q316 on the eastbound main at Keyser. The CSX locomotive on the engineer's side of 4645 is waiting to help the loaded coal hoppers behind it to the Mt Storm power plant. Note t... (more)
Four GE's, with 767 in front, are parked and waiting for work. The main lines, with east bound on the left are the two that have welded rail. That's the interlocking between the two signal towers.
The morning sun bursts on the nose of 289 as the morning mist begins to recede. Before noon, this train will crew up and these locomotives will help shove this coal to the Mt Storm power some 55 m... (more)
Several CSX locomotives now wear Heritage emblems on their cabs, here's 3010 with hers.
The 602 had been on the property for over a year performing road testing but also spent a good bit of time in the shop for program work. On this day it was used to double a coal train together for... (more)
An ex-SCL GP40 and ex-Chessie GP30M sit in Keyser Yard on a cold December day.
Interior of Armstrong lever equipped Z Tower.
Four big GE's sit at idle, waiting for crew. Just east of these engines on RC2 sit eighty or so loads of coal which these engines will take to the Mt Storm power plant.
452 has a long line of PPLX hoppers with West Virgina coal headed for Pennsyvania.
A pair of CSX Geeps tie down in the yard after cutting away from a work train. also in this picture the hi rail crane truck is loading used scrape metal into the gondolas.
2629 runs long hood forward with a string of cars for the big paper mill at Luke, MD.
U 823 blasts thru east Keyser at 45 per with 80 loads of West Virginia coal
543 and 611 wait for the power off Q317, two SD 40-2's, former BNSF power now HLCX, to move forward and pick them up for a trip to Grafton.
