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| Jim Pearson Photography posted Kanawha River Terminal Railroad locomotive 1100 (GP40-2LW, built as Canadian National #9505 to Kanawha River Terminal #1100) and 1200 (GP40-2LW, built as Canadian National #9638) to Kanawha River Terminal #1100), work on moving a coal train at Ceredo, West Virginia, on November 2nd, 2022, at Kanawha River Terminal (Ceredo Dock) facility. According to their website: The Kanawha River Terminal Railroad is a switching operation serving the Kanawha River Terminal (Ceredo Dock) facility, situated along the Ohio River west of Huntington, West Virginia. The railroad operation handles interchange with Norfolk Southern and CSK Transportation. The terminal has an annual throughput capacity of nearly 20 million tons and is equipped with a rotary dumper and a barge loader, the latter of which provides volume coal loading to barges. The facility and the switching railroad are owned by SunCoke Energy. A variety of first and second-generation motive power is maintained at an engine house in Ceredo, West Virginia, adjacent to the terminal. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 200. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's post I spotted six locomotives and a tow boat. (There is another locomotive further east working a cut of cars.) And it looks like they can load three barges at the same time. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... (Actually, they can load two barges and unload one barge at the same time. http://s2.q4cdn.com/.../Fact-Sheet-Kanawha-River-Coal...) |
Ceredo Coal Terminal• Located at mile 314.5 on the Ohio River• 18 million tons of annual throughput capacity• Rail and barge access• 200-barge fleeting capacity• 1,100-railcar track capacity• Nine stacking tubes with Merrick feeders for maximum blending flexibility• 500-ton/hour barge-to-ground offload system and two barge loadouts for maximum efficiency• Simultaneous ground-to-barge or rail-to-barge loadingOur coal logistics terminals have the collective capacity to blend and transload 40 million tons of coal each year and are strategically located to reach Gulf Coast, East Coast, Great Lakes and international ports. We are a leading provider of coal handling services in the Ohio River Valley Basin and Gulf Coast region with more than 30 years of experience receiving, blending, storing and transloading thermal and metallurgical coals.[facts]
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted It was a quiet day at the Kanawah River Terminal Railroad during my visit there on May 1st, 2025, at Ceredo, West Virginia, but I shot this interesting shot of power sitting in the yard. According to their website: The Kanawha River Terminal Railroad is a switching operation serving the Kanawha River Terminal (Ceredo Dock) facility, situated along the Ohio River and is west of Huntington, West Virginia. The railroad operation handles interchange with Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation. The terminal has an annual throughput capacity of nearly 20 million tons and is equipped with a rotary dumper and a barge loader, the latter of which provides volume coal loading to barges. The facility and the switching railroad are owned by SunCoke Energy. A variety of first and second-generation motive power is maintained at an engine house in Ceredo, West Virginia, adjacent to the terminal. Tech Info: Nikon Z6ii, RAW, Nikon 70-300 @ 155mm, f/4, 1/1250, ISO 640. Ted Gregory: Norfolk Southern owns and operates most if not all of the line. KRT operates the tail end of the line leading to the port. Mark Jordan: Ceredo is my hometown, and the "belt line" connecting to the C&O was operated by C&O/Chessie. I remember a wreck on that belt line with a caboose sitting on top of derailed hoppers, apparently shoved by the locomotives. Predecessor of KRT was "Ogleby Norton" and before that "Truax Trayer". |
The B&O used to run north of the C&O route with its own bridge across the Big Sandy river. But it was abandoned by a 1985 topo map.
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| 1904 Kenova Quad @ 125,000 |
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| This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River |
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| This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River |
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| This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River |
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| This photo has been moved to London, WV: Mammoth Coal Processing Plant on the Kanawha River |
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