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Welcome to the Keyser, WV  Area Stream. Please check out the Forum dedicated to this stream for additional info on this stream.

This stream monitors the east end of CSX's Mountain Subdivision located in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia.

In addition, we have limited radio coverage of the Cumberland area of Western Maryland, including the yard operations in 

Cumberland.

The primary tonnage this Subdivision sees in train movements is coal... with some trains requiring helpers to be added at

Keyser if their tonnage is heavy enough to require them. This line sees anywhere from 10 to 15 through trains per day.

In addition to the CSX mainline, there is a branch line to the Mount Storm Power Plant which can see up to 5 movements of

coal trains per week . Usually a helper is  tacked onto the rear because the train has a switch back to negotiate about 3/4 

quarters of the way up the line.

We are also monitoring the Georges Creek Railway (GCRY) a [very] short shortline

of about .5 miles.They work the Clay Hole at the Luke Paper mill about 3 or 4 times

a day moving tankers, covered hoppers and every once and a while a box car or two.

In the near future they will be switching the entire New Page Paper Mill. 

       The operator at West Keyser Throws

       one of the Armstrong levers for the Q317

Frequencies Currently Being Monitored       

160.230   AAR08   CSX Road

160.320   AAR14   CSX CI Jacksonville /BB Baltimore dispatchers

161.520   AAR94   CSX BB Baltimore Dispatcher

160.785   AAR45    CSX M of W            

161.160   AAR70    CSX Cumberland Yard

160.530   AAR28    CSX Switching 

160.845   AAR49    WMSR road/yard/shop

161.370   AAR84    Georges Creek Railway (Industrial Shortline)

WMSR = Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 

Defect Detectors that can be heard

MP. (BA)  198.9 Dragging Equipment Track 1 and 2

MP. {BA} 210.1 Dragging Equipment Track 2

You can view a timetable of the Subdivision created

    by  the talented  and  knowledgeable folks at 

                        www.wvrail.railfan.net

      (Click on the timetable image to magnify it)

 
Keyser  still has one of the last operating  Armstrong interlocking

towers in the United States, which (sadly) is  slated for closure in

the fall.  The Keyser  Interlocking tower controls  the movements

in and out of the Keyser Yard  and they  are quite  talkative on  

the radio.