Travel along with Neff Video and videographer Bob Sechler as they continue their popular series, “Railroading in the Laurel Highlands”.

Western Pennsylvanians call It the “Mon” when talking about the Monongahela River which flows north from the mountains of West Virginia to Pittsburgh.

Travel with Neff Video and videographer Bob Sechler as they view the railroads of Western Pennsylvania during the autumn of 1998.

From November 1997 through February 1998, videographer Bob Sechler captured exciting action in snow, sleet, freezing rain, and crisp clear winter days to bring you an hour’s worth of trackside action.

Spring and summer of 1999 signaled a revolutionary change in railroading throughout Western Pennsylvania.

Railroads of Western Pennsylvania during the Winter of 1998/99.

In Part 2 of our series on the Pocahontas Division we continue our visit through the coal mountains of West Virginia. Green Frog’s professional railroad photographer Rich Scheid, captures the action at Roderfield and then continues northwest through Iaeger. We’ll see a coal mine located between Matewan and Williamson flood loading a coal train. Then…

Visit the coal mountains of West Virginia with Green Frog photographer Rich Scheid, beginning in Blue Field, WV., and working north through Mayberry, Switch Back, Elkhorn, Kyle, Northfork, Keystone, Kimball, Superior, Welch, and Roderfield. This trip takes us through the many moods of the fall season and through the small coal towns of West Virginia….