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A Run To Kenova, West Virginia.
« on: June 27, 2017, 02:43:52 AM »
Made a run down to Kenova, West Virginia this past week with a couple of friends of mine. We hadn't been down for a while so we decided to head down there and see what we could get on camera. We had intended on trying to catch the C&O 7534 either setting at Huntington Shops or on the local heading for Russell, Kentucky but we were a day early for that. For the four hours that we were down there, traffic wasn't all that bad and here's everything that went by that we were able to catch.

Trundling its way west towards a crew change at Star Yard over in Portsmouth, Ohio and eventually a run up to Moorman Yard at Bellevue, Ohio. Norfolk Southern mixed freight 195, running as an 80E, rolls across the former Chesapeake & Ohio mainline with SD70ACe #1030 on the point.
 

After patiently waiting over on their side for an eastbound manifest to pass by on the CSX. One of the Kenova District road switchers, J14, eases west along the Kenova Loop on its way over to New Yard along the Ohio River with a string of covered hoppers in tow.


With maintenance crews out and about working on main #1 between South Point, Ohio and I believe Docks Creek on the West Virginia side. It meant that there was a good portion of single track main only and that some trains had to wait for a while to let traffic to clear before proceeding on. Here we see one of those trains in loaded grain train 54W finally taking its turn across the massive Ohio River Bridge as it heads on east towards Williamson and points beyond.


With maintenance crews still out and clearing up for the evening and nothing moving the other direction on Norfolk Southern towards Portsmouth. Proceeding east towards Williamson to pick up a pilot engineer for the run over the hills to Bluefield. Auto rack train 272 glides over the town of Kenova with some loaner power from Canadian Pacific on the point.


Getting ready to drop off cars int the interchange yard with Norfolk Southern off of track one. Running the way that God intended, CSX GP38-3 #2021 brings the H996 Huntington local into Kenova with a handful of asphalt tank cars bringing up the rear of the train.


Holding in position so that the CSX crew can clear up in the interchange yard. Norfolk Southern local freight J14 pauses just briefly on the Kenova Loop so that it can get around to Norfolk Southern's yard on the other side of town.


Hauling ass and wasting no time on its way back to the yard at Russell, Kentucky. Huntington Shop hostler/local H779 is seen passing under the former Norfolk & Western mainline as it storms through Kenova with some units fresh from the shops and a decent sized train in tow.


Heading for Williamson and eventually the Buchanan Branch with a somewhat short train to load. Empty coke train 859 marches east with a solo Crash 9 wide cab leading the way.


Haven't made the video public yet but there are a couple of trains in the video that weren't shot via photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Ei4if5EGI



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