A Couple of Hours On the Kanawha River Railroad

Spent a couple of hours on the New York Central/Penn Central/Conrail/Norfolk Southern's "West Virginia Branch" now operated by WATCO's Kanawha River Railroad this past Friday on Started off watching a couple of trains being built and switched out at Dickinson Yard at Quincy, West Virginia. First we have yard crew KN30, with WAMX SD40M-2 4211, building a string of cars together for a manifest to go out later on. Next, we see the Alloy Local switching out some loaded rock hoppers for their run up to Alloy and West Virginia Metals with a pair of GP39Vs. Last but not least, We see northbound manifest KN381 passing through Belle, West Virginia with a pair of SD40M-2s for power.