Main Street Faces The Trains! Mountain Town Built On The Railroad! Matewan West Virginia 4 Trains!

Trains run right in front of & circle the brick buildings of this town that the railroad built! This is just like Thurmond West Virginia. This is coal country and the trains are in Matewan West Virginia. Norfolk Southern Railroad main line runs right through this town that is almost land locked. There is only one way in and one way out. Trains cut the town off and go through the flood walls. See the Google Maps picture in the video. This is Hatfield and McCoy feud area with history every where you look. The small town looks like a movie set to me. Check out the scenes I filmed here of the town. The Norfolk Southern Pocahontas Sub is busy here with numerous daily freights although the coal trains are disappearing. I came here looking for coal trains but only saw a few and I found that both of the coal spurs that leave Matewan have been recently removed. Most of the trains here are double stack intermodals and mixed freights. We stayed one night in the brick building that use to be the town hospital. The two track mainline is just behind the building and it was awesome to listen to the trains roll by in the night. While we were here it seemed like more trains ran at night then in the day. Listen in on 161.190 and 452.9375 for the EOT device. The best way to track trains here is by using the EOT frequency in your scanner and you will get about a 5 to 10 minute warning. The signals are no longer called out. I made a few other videos of this area including a video of an abandoned coal spur with the locomotive left behind and a video of train going through the Hatfield Tunnels on the west side of Matewan. I am working on another video of Williamson WV. Filmed August 5, 2021. Thanks for watching! Please thumbs up and watch another JawTooth video to help my channel.
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[@WideWorldofTrains]

More great JT stuff

[@JawTooth]

Thanks!

[@johngetman1816]

"I was in the middle of eating & I heard a train so I have to film it"!!🤣🤣 Classic Jaw Tooth!! You are THE most dedicated train buff in all the land my friend!!🤓✌

[@railfanpolska]

Thank you for sharing!👌

[@stephenrick6672]

Talk about dedication, leaving your meal to film a train!

[@JawTooth]

Heck yeah! I was on train duty

[@cmdrflake]

Excellent! Woo wee. Thanks for sharing with us!

[@ЖеняСладкий-в5з]

THe little Town and Railroad !!!))) Cool !!!! Jaw !!!!

[@rachelolvera9435]

Wow busy train schedule!

[@anthonycollins4747]

🚂 Great video Jawtooth. Sorry you had to interrupt your dinner for us. Thanks again.👍👍🚂🚂

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

Great video 🚄🚄👍

[@rachelolvera9435]

Awesome cámara work there!

[@chesterraybon3442]

The first thing I noticed is how quiet those rails were. Just an absolutely beautiful location. Love the mountains in the background. Thanks and take care. 😎👍👌

[@JawTooth]

Thanks Chester!

[@spaceflight1019]

The scenery makes the drive on I-77 worth the aggravation.

[@edbetsworth2772]

Two weeks ago I, my wife, and our youngest daughter drove through West Virginia to get to Lexington VA. What a beautiful site. The mountain views were gorgeous.

[@stephenrick6672]

Your always comming up with unusual places to watch trains, very cool!

[@JM_Sports]

Wow nice shots!

[@damian.rosario]

Beatiful video Jaw, liked it 😉👏👏👍

[@TenMinuteTrips]

Your thumbnail immediately reminded me of Dunsmuir, CA, looking north toward the Amtrak station. Union Pacific tracks follow the Sacramento River through the canyon. The tracks turn to the left looking northbound, just like in your thumbnail. Dunsmuir is a crew change point, so the trains wind through the canyon slowly as they approach the town, especially from the north. You can hear the horn and the squealing wheels echoing off the hillsides for a few minutes prior to a train’s arrival. The town itself is built up the hill from the tracks and features cute Victorian and Queen Anne architecture, as well as old brick buildings like in your video. I believe that it’s a popular place to model for fans of the old Southern Pacific.

[@brandonreeves5979]

Awesome video!!! That was a great spot to shoot your video from. Very cool!

[@celioleitao7303]

Awesome location to see trains.

[@draff1662]

Amazing! Thank you.

[@rachelolvera9435]

Have a blessed Sunday Jawtooth and family!

[@Bhil3]

Great video, cool town, beautiful scenery.

[@suzannewilde6733]

Love the hum of the wheels on the track of those coal trains. Nothing like it. Another great video.

[@mikelwylie1649]

An awsome place you filmed from lots of NS action and thankyou for sharing

[@usnusmcret]

Hey JT! Love your excitement when you hear the train horn!

[@jeremypreece870]

Hello from the UK. This really does look like a town that should have horses and not cars in the street! However, it is nice to see that this isn't a ghost town although clearly some of those shops in front of the railway are closed. I notice that the buildings are brick and concrete. I only comment as an Englishman, because so many of your houses are timber or part timber. This, still living, town has so much character. BTW: You show the ultimate dedication, more than travelling to these out of the way places, you interrupt your meal to film a train. That's dedication!

[@sidneybowerman558]

Now that's what I call dedication. Leaving your meal to catch video of the train. Thanks for all of it.

[@ilikesalt7245]

I really enjoy the old towns you bring to us.

[@JawTooth]

Thanks!

[@marycope5858]

I love when they preserve vintage places like this, and with the trains... it's Perfect!! Thank you Jaw Tooth for sharing this!!

[@janetdoten9908]

Cool, history full of thanks for sharing

[@cruisevideo1]

You find some of the coolest places!

[@chatanugadotorg]

I love visiting towns like that. They have so much character to them. Plus getting to see a glimpse of history as you go through them.

[@richarddrum9970]

I wish I had known you were going there, I could have provided more on its more recent history since the 1977 flood that transformed the town. That largely deserted Main Street (the movie set) used to be US Route 52 between Williamson and Welch, WV until the Corps of Engineers rerouted the highway on the other side of the tracks and closed the tunnel under the railroad. That red firehouse you noticed is sitting on 25 feet of fill as is the rest of the Mate Creek subdivision built to hold relocated homes. Too bad you missed one of the double stacks. Thanks for taking a picture of my SD40 on the wall, I enjoyed that design work.

[@eugenekleis3836]

I just want to say hello to you jaw tooth train man good videos

[@andrefane5499]

Amazing videos jaw tooth keep up the good work

[@tomsdotter3228]

Awesome video! Thanks!

[@danbedford5419]

Good video jawtooth

[@dmorgan28]

This was awesome. What a picturesque little town with all the old buildings and trees👍👍👍❤️

[@railfanlondonwhaley9521]

I enjoyed the video👍👍

[@paulbetka2966]

SO FREAKING COOL 😎👍🏻 FIND THE NICEST LITTLE SPOTS TO VIEW TRAIN'S 🚂🇺🇲

[@donaldmilhoan6379]

West Virginia, is so nice to watch with the hills, towns are always old and awesome.

[@Erick-ve1jx]

What neat little town,beautiful Area, very cool place to watch trains. Thanks for the video. Got to get myself back to West Virginia, forgot how beautiful it is

[@stretchlimo7275]

Awesome video JT👍🏼 That's quite the quaint little mountain town there, thanks for always taking us to new places like this! Good work JT, thanks for posting 👍🏼😎🇺🇲

[@johnharmar-smith2262]

Beautiful town and very enjoyable video - love the sweeping shape of the railroad - thank you from Northern Ireland, where we have one of the world's most beautiful coastline rail journeys, from Coleraine to Londonderry!

[@jeffbaker2897]

Enjoyed the NS runs good variety of freight, beautiful area of WV J.T. you take care & stay safe.👍👋😎🛤🚂

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

I like yout train videos.. thanx...

[@LasVegas68]

JT you are da man when it comes to railroad videos! Stay safe and keep em coming.

[@nitr8]

You sure pick some lovely places/towns to film. Great! Thanks! 👍

[@gingerbread6614]

We love watching you & your dog

[@jmeier37]

i’ve never seen so much live action! you had that video rolling 24/7! i’m sure that restaurant got a kick outta you jumping up from the table to run outside! start the video, son!

[@penguinsfan251]

This is one of your best videos, along with Thurmond. Seeing the mountainsides covered with trees in the summertime juxtaposed with the railroad tracks and the long trains passing through is just amazing. The Wheeling & Lake Erie passed through my neighborhood several times a day as it hauls natural gas from fracking wells. One place I enjoy seeing trains is Ohiopyke, Pennsylvania. When riding the bike trail, it is either hard or impossible to see the CSX trains, but you sure can hear them, as if you are next to them. My best friend grew up in a little town on the Turtle Creek Valley east of Pittsburgh. The old PRR mainline still runs through there and you can see and hear the trains running through the main line. Hope you can make it out to Pittsburgh/Cumberland, MD. to make some videos.

[@JJGeneral1]

I still live in western PA, grew up in Irwin, now live in Cranberry. No trains really near me, except conway yard now. I used to go down along the Youghiogheny river and watch trains all day long. Sutersville, West Newton, Dawson, Connellsville. No I'm lucky if I get to see them through downtown pittsburgh and up route 65.

[@Patric5590]

Awesome video 🇺🇸👍😎

[@martinmarsola6477]

Looks like a quiet town. Thanks for the video. 😊👍🇺🇸

[@michaelnotigan7796]

JT, thank you for sharing these beautiful small railroad towns like Matewan and Thurmond with us. Absolutely breathtaking, like going back into time.

[@JawTooth]

Thanks Michael!

[@benford4105]

Logan is north of there beautiful area my family's from there

[@williamralph5442]

Great closeup Jt. The wheels are singing.

[@train1962]

Nice place with lots of "live action". I may have to take a trip to that area.Thanks Brian.

[@jamescotter5376]

Just keep it up you find the most interesting keep them coming thank you very very wonderful video

[@mikedurhan9941]

Well, that's it; I'm moving to Matewan. Beautiful place and lots of rail action. Perfect..........

[@johnathanlewis2049]

Hi Jaw Tooth. Great video. Where you’re standing a lot of history right there. Love the trains!! Have a great day!!

[@haydentheratholerailfan3785]

Nice video! Great posting !

[@billm.2373]

Judging from the amount and strength of the door frame at 11:00, I think there was once a crane or hoist in that doorway used to bring bulk goods to the second floor for storage. I've seen rigs like that in MA as a kid. Great video; great slice of small town America!

[@RodrigoSousaFerrovias]

Great video my friend!👏👏👏

[@chriswright8464]

It's amazing back in the day that town was busy. All because of the TRAINS!

[@chrisgallant9889]

Nice catch. At 9:37 there was an auto rack with the Providence and Worcester Railroad logo. You rarely see them outside of Massachusetts.

[@wheeling827]

Great video Jaw Tooth! If you want to see a lot of trains in one day, I would recommend going to Berea Ohio. There are 3 NS Tracks, 2 CSX, and there is a train basically every 25 minutes. You can see CSX, NS, UP, CP, CN and more.

[@lucast3006]

That’s a beautiful little town. About three years ago I took a road trip to the east coast and drove through tons of these little West Virginia towns on the way. I remember that WV wasn’t anything like I had originally imagined.

[@grahamsawyer831]

that's a cool old town... just dozing in the sun; can only guess how much LIVE ACTION!! this place has seen over the years. awesome, as always. many thanks JT

[@robertlatham4541]

Perfect relaxing Sunday railroading viewing.

[@JawTooth]

Thanks for watching Graham!

[@Bithiann]

Jaw tooth love this video, the movie Matewan was filmed in the town of Thurmond, great video..

[@bootsdocsandconspiracies6589]

Why didn't they film Matewan in Matewan?

[@Bithiann]

I think it was probably because Thurmond has less people and perhaps it would have been harder to film in matewan, thurmond is in the new river area and was a coal town and still looks like it did in the 1920s also I would like to add there is only one way in and one way out so they probably could control the filming easier.

[@timothyxv171mmmpertinentgamer]

Matewan W.Virginia 4 City is always jaw tooth 🙋🏻‍♂️ right where you often go to do work, shopping Just where the train go's on bye 🚆♾ CSX, NS crew happy to be on Video my friend live Action

[@Railfan62]

Cool looking town !!!!

[@ALSomthin]

Yup, Im a rail fan and I like your videos. Occasionally I ask myself why I am a rail fan guess some of the best times I had as a kid were being down by the railroad tracks in the 60s and 70s. Listening to my dad's stories about his adventures when he was a kid and hearing the trains off in the distance at night. I would have loved to have worked for the railroad but, life took me elsewhere. Thanks for all the videos!

[@brianhickey5949]

West Va and a coal train :) You can tell it's WV - look at the mountains - scenic! Nice NS trains! Plenty of flange squeal to keep you alert :) I see that inside track is close to the little road - that is probably exciting being that close.

[@mocha2168]

Very cool. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@lazyrrr2411]

That IS Cool ! ... if ℹ said it before, ℹ'll say it again : "Jaw" , you've got that eye for scenes that Scream to be modelled 👌😎

[@petebachelder1131]

That's like train central, nice little town, your finding some awesome places !!! Keep up the good work !! Great video 👍

[@silverhawk_25]

Nice video Jawtooth loved the live action trains that town is pretty cool alot of trains go through there

[@markhayes6407]

You always have great locations to view trains. This place is cool!. All those West Virginia towns had the trains right next to the tracks because that was their only mode of transportation in the steam days. Keep filming in these places.

[@teddycrenshaw223]

That's some of the smoothest and quietest track and cars I've ever heard

[@shauntrailskinner9645]

@Teddy Crenshaw QUIETEST TRACKS??!! YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME!! 😳 You must be deaf son-n-n. You mean to T-E-E-L-L-L me......you did not hear that dreadful squealing noise earlier into the video, on the curves??!! 😳 I mentioned this in my comments, posted near the top of the page. 🤔

[@georgettedebuhr7642]

Such a nice quiet town😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@andrewhatter4151]

Great place to visit, and I actually love the fact that most of the rolling stock was not all tagged up, they looked new and well kept.

[@cameronreason]

Awesome video Brian! Very cool little town.. it really looks like a movie set from the old west! Great catches of the coal and manifest.. close up.. Thanks for the tour🙏🏽

[@RogerThunderhandsGilbert]

Great little town...what's for lunch? LOL!

[@larrythumper1559]

The old door on the second story looks like a freight door. A lot of old buildings had them. Used that style of lift of lot in Michigan

[@SarahsAtticOfTreasures]

Brian, What an awesome little mountain train town. Really cool. Loved this. So will Danny. Have a great week.

[@truckinpoppop6777]

Go to English WVa. McDowell county. I used to watch trains day and night when I was a kid. All coal. Norfolk and Western, Virginian, and some Nickel Plate Road cars. The town is only a husk since the mines shut down

[@WMAJ6]

The movie Matewan was about the coal strike and the massacre in 1920. Many of the miners were WWI veterans just back from France and they dug a system of trenches on the mountains and had machine guns like they had used in France to fight against the Baldwin-Felts guards and the National Guard who were called in to restore order. The movie was actually filmed in Thurmond since the town there was abandoned and looked a great deal like Matewan with the buildings facing the railroad.

[@j2themac778]

Thanks for another great video Jaw Tooth. West Virginia sure does have beautiful scenery Even more beautiful when trains are running through it.

[@stormingcoasters]

I love these trains!

[@carlzeiss48]

I remember working in Matewan in the mid 70's as a surveyor, putting in ground control for aerial mapping. Not sure now what is was for, but I got to meet the Hatfields AND the McCoys in the process. We found a motel a bit away in Red Jacket; nothing available in Matewan. And the railroad tunnels! Unforgettable. Thanks for posting this up.

[@BeNice4243]

We were there. It's very beautiful and serene. A lady who is a member of one of the families told us that feud was made out to be more than it actually was. She was very nice and wanted us to stay for tea but we had miles to go before night.

[@thomasfletcher4765]

Nice small town with what looks like several business opportunities . So many trains in one video , quite the catch for ya ( it's always a treat when there's MOAR ! )

[@southernboy7437]

I grew up in a Virginia town that both the N&W and the SCL came through. I am surprised the NS doesn't utilize more DPU's especially in mountainous areas. Thanks for the great video ... and all your travel and hard work that makes this happen ....

[@beulahpowell1478]

Yep!

[@MichealPorter]

That balcony you see is where they have a rail stick out to the street and they can haul hay/pianos/trunks up to the second floor.

[@janetbailey4753]

Wow! What a neat little town. Great train videos.

[@JawTooth]

Thank you very much!

[@derrickanderson4932]

That is so cool Thanks.

[@beulahpowell1478]

This is the first We saw you film in W. Virginia. Cool.😊Nice town Long trains.❤ Love the buildings. Thanks again for an enjoyable video. 😊

[@JawTooth]

Glad you enjoyed it! I have a lot of videos from West Virginia so you have some catching up to do. lol

[@Morcaiden]

Beautiful mountain community, impressive consist with a distinctive, droning sound. Thought it was flying into my screen at 1:58! Another excellent vid, JT. Thanks!

[@bluepen61]

Beautiful video!!!

[@ellenyager9577]

A gorgeous area! A cute little historic town! Thanks for taking us there!

[@JawTooth]

Our pleasure!

[@sanddabz5635]

"bleached by the sun or sun bleached"" is what it's called......As always, great filming and only getting better! Thank you JT!

[@davidmihevc3990]

Hey JT! Wow, views of both sides of the train at the same time! Getting pretty sophisticated now. Great job. 👍👍👍

[@77thTrombone]

I noticed that too. Even checked the loco #s to make sure. Must've taken his better half with him on the trip.

[@luistherailfanner2798]

Awesome