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CSX Transportation No. 2477, an SD50-2, leads an empty westbound stone train across the Little Kanawha River Bridge at Parkersburg, W.Va., on March 2, 2007. In the background, a loaded CSX coal train crosses the Ohio River bridge that was once part of the Baltimore & Ohio’s main line to St. Louis.

CSX Transportation ES44DC No. 5351 leads train Q763, better known as the Hanover Rock Runner, eastbound on the CSX’s Hanover Subdivision in Glenville, Pa., on Valentine’s Day 2013. The train is operating on the former Western Maryland “Dutch Line” with loaded stone cars for industries in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas.

Take a look at H&K Birdsboro Materials’s truck-to-rail off-loading site in Birdsboro, Pa., in September 2010. The stone shown is weighed on the conveyor belt before reaching the rail cars. Both stone and cars were destined for Dagsboro, Del.

New Hampshire Northcoast GP38-2 No. 3823, GP9 No. 1757, and GP38-2 No. 3825 pull up to the Ossipee Aggregates transload facility at Tri City  (Rochester), N.H., in the morning on Nov. 7, 2007.

Nittany & Bald Eagle GP8 No. 1603 leads a stone train into Driftwood, Pa., through the South Driftwood control point on Norfolk Southern’s “Buffalo Line,” April 14, 2012.

Stoneco Plymouth CR-8 works the small yard at the north end of the Carey Short Line near Carey, Ohio, in November 2011. Originally, the center track was part of the New York Central’s Cincinnati to Sandusky, Ohio, main line. The line now extends a mile north of this location and about a mile south of here where it connects to CSX and the Wheeling & Lake Erie. All four companies in Carey: CSX Transportation, W&LE, Stoneco, and National Lime & Stone use the trackage.

Aggregate used for base material for highway maintenance and construction is being loaded into aggregates cars by an automated conveyor system at Capitol Aggregates’ Marble Falls Quarry in Marble Falls, Texas, on June 10, 2008.

A Union Pacific eastbound aggregate train arrives in Taylor, Texas, at milepost 146.0 in May 2008, led by C6000ACs Nos. 7519, 7562, and 7560.

Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-3 No. 3068 leads a hopper train through the countryside near Chatfield, Ohio, on May 25, 2012. The train is destined for a limestone mine in Carey, Ohio.

From Cabazon, Calif., on Union Pacific’s Sunset Route, east of Los Angeles, the railroad moves crushed rock for Robertson’s Ready Mix, a major LA-area concrete and construction products company. The destination of these trains is Robertson’s Gardena cement plant, 13 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, for a total 95-mile-long route.