At the crossover, signal bridges and double-track west leg and single track east leg of the wye at Barboursville (MP 494.7), the Logan subdivision trails in from the southwest and the main line turns east, reducing to two tracks once again, with speed limit 55-50. East of Barboursville, the speed limit rises to 65-50 at MP 494.0, past detectors at MP 493.4, with I-64 alongside to the north, and 79-50 at MP 492.2, past a dirt road grade crossing. The line turns curvily east-northeast, past Ona, with buildings to the north and a wooded hillside to the south, an angled bridge carrying a highway overhead, a road bridge overhead at Yates, a road bridge overhead and an adjacent grade crossing, a bridge over a stream and a road, dual angled road bridges carrying I-64 overhead, a grade crossing, and detectors at MP 489.6, turns south, bridging over a river twice, past dual I-64 road bridges overhead, and a road bridge overhead, and then east-southeast, with speed limit 60-50, past a bridge over a dirt road, a bridge over a stream, two bridges over streets, and signal bridges and crossovers at Milton (MP 486.5), where the speed limit reverts to 79-50,
There is a road alongside to the north, a bridge over a road, a stream, and a road, two grade crossings, a road bridge overhead, six bridges over streams, a dirt road grade crossing, four bridges over streams, and a turn northeast, with speed limit 70-50 past Intermediate Signals at MP 481.4, a road bridge overhead, Culloden, a grade crossing, a road bridge overhead, east-northeast, with speed limit 65-50 and a road alongside to the north, past signal bridges and crossovers at Hurricane (MP 479.2), a bridge over a street, two road bridges overhead, a grade crossing, a road alongside to the north, a grade crossing, a bridge over a stream, a grade crossing, two bridges over streams, east, with speed limit 70-50 past a bridge over a dirt road, two bridges over streams, a dirt road grade crossing, Teays, a grade crossing, a signal bridge, a grade crossing, a bridge over a stream, detectors at MP 474.x, two grade crossings, a dirt road grade crossing, and crossovers at Scott (MP 473.8), where the speed limit falls to 60-50.
The line turns south along the west bank of the Kanawha River at Scary, where a spur from the John Amos Power Plant trails in, past a dirt road grade crossing, cuttings and embankments, a dirt road grade crossing, a dirt track grade crossing, detectors at MP 470.2, a road alongside to the east, with the river beyond that, the river moving away, a road bridge overhead, a speed limit rise to 70-50 at MP 469.3, a spur trailing in on the east side, a spur heading away to serve an industry with tank cars on the east side, dual road bridges overhead, a crossover at Dock (MP 467.6), where an extra track on the south side starts as the line turns southeast and then east-southeast, with speed limit 60-50 and then 50 mph at MP 465.8, across the Coal River on a through truss bridge, past two grade crossings, Intermediate Signals (posts), a grade crossing, a bridge over a stream, a street alongside to the north, and the crossover and extra track on the north side at St. Albans (MP 465.1), where the extra track on the south side ends, and there is a wye on the south side, east of the crossover, where the Coal River subdivision departs to the south.