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

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CSX_Huntington_Division/

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/wvsecondary/

CSX Kanawha Subdivision

The anteanna is located approx. 1 mile west of St. Albans across the Kanawha River. The CSX Kanawha Subdivision, former C&O mainline serves multiple coal trains daily headed to and from the West Virginia/Kentucky coalfields. This line also receives grain and sulphur trains as well as two daily mainfest freights, Q302 & Q303. The line receives multiple "H" symboled locals/mine runs going to and from the local, John Amos Power Plant. The St. Albans local based out of South Charleston Yard also serves two small industries just west of St. Albans. The bi-weekly Amtrak Cardinal can also be heard making his journey through the coalfields. Amtrak # 50 is the morning train, scheduled to arrive into Charleston, WV at 8:16 am on the mornings of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. Amtrak # 51 is scheduled to arrive into Charleston, WV at 8:10 pm on the evenings of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. 

More Information:

CSX HF Dispatcher

Average- 10-15 trains

Lenghth of Subdivision- 94.7 Miles 

CSX Kanawha Subdivision Timetable 

CSX Coal River Subdivision

 Located about three miles east of the location of the antenna is the junction to the CSX Coal River Subdivision. Multiple coal trains can be heard traveling over this single main. The subdivision has multiple junctions including the Big Coal Subdivision, Pond Fork Subdivision, and the Laurel Fork Subdivision. The line terminates in Danville, WV in the middle of the Southern West Virginia coalfields.  

More Information:

CSX HE Dispatcher

Average- 8-12 trains

Length of Subdivision- 50.6 Miles 

CSX Coal River Subdivision

Big Coal Subdivsion

Big Coal Subdivision 

Norfolk Southern West Virginia Secondary 

The radio and antenna are located just a few yards from the NS West Virginia Secondary line in Nitro, WV. This line which branches off in Columbus, OH serves two daily freight trains, 380 & 381 which both do pickup/setoff in the Nitro Yard, located 0.8 miles north of the antenna. The Nitro Local, usually using the "J1J" symbol can be heard switching out cars in the Nitro Yard during the weekdays usually in the mid-afternoon hours, sometimes later depending on rail traffic. The J1J serves a few industries nearby including, RJ Recycling located 1.5 miles south of Nitro, and the Institute Yard, located 2.0 miles south of Nitro. The 380 & 381 also switch out cars at the Institute Yard which is a medium sized industrial park home to many industries including Bayer Crop Science, DOW, and many others. A local, usually using the "J1E" symbol is based out of Institute and is used for switching out the tank cars at various facilities. The bulk of traffic traveling the WV Secondary is coal. Southbound empty hopper trains can be heard traveling through Nitro towards Dickinson where they terminate. Upon arrival into Dickinson, they travel up multiple coal branches and eventually return to Dickinson Yard with loads. Just south of Dickinson is the connection to the old Virginian main which runs south towards Princeton, WV and eventually connecting to the NS Bluefield mainline. Another yard located on the NS WV Secondary is just north of the WV/OH border near Point Pleasant in a small town called Hobson, OH. Hobson Yard is a crew change point for Northbound & Southbound trains traveling the Secondary. Trains traveling north out of Hobson can be heard by visiting the South Central Ohio Feed. The NS West Virginia Secondary is covered by track authority numbers instead of signals. The NA Dispatcher in Bluefield gives out these "warrants" to trains traveling north and southbound.

 Norfolk Southern West Virginia Secondary Timetable

Frequencies Currently Being Monitored:

• AAR08 - 160.230 Mhz - CSX Road
• AAR14 - 160.320 Mhz - CSX Dispatcher - Coal River Subdivision
• AAR20 - 160.410 Mhz - CSX Dispatcher - Kanawha Subdivision
• AAR45 - 160.785 Mhz - CSX MOW Channel
• AAR64 - 161.070 Mhz - NS Road/Dispatcher - WV Secondary

Detectors Heard:

• CSX CA463.4 - East End of St. Albans
• NS   WV171.8 - Nitro

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