M653 rolls around the bend at Millard along The Big Sandy. Gotta say this looks like a very good loadout going to waste if you ask me.
Reportedly ex-MP and considering the replacement headlight with no number boards I would guess originally C&EI. Don't even know where I got the road name from. I found the thing by accident.
These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)
Winding slowly downgrade on the serpentine branch this loaded mine run was an easy chase. Though wearing its short-lived Seaboard System number it still bears the proud logo of SCL's whipping boy... (more)
Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.
Passing C&O signals down the Big Sandy Sub CSX 7021 leads manifest train M692 towards Shelby.
Mine Run R233 rolls around the bend at the foot of Burton Hill, while running alongside Ky Route 7 in the quiet community of Letcher, Kentucky. This train was recently loaded at Leatherwood and is... (more)
A common hangout for me in those days, this was a busy place. This former C&O unit is awaiting work.
Originally C&O, on the front of a NB coal train back when almost any kind of unit could be found in that role. And back when you could actually find a train here. The Eastern Kentucky air condit... (more)
Nee C & O rebuilt and derated to 2000 HP.
Another load leaving The Coalfields, while heading back up The Rockhouse.
A western visitor leads a tank train down The Big Sandy, through the small community of Wagner on the outskirts of Pikeville.
A 110 car empty coal train crawls it's way up The Carr's Fork Branch at Jeff, en route to The Yellow Creek loader at the far end of the branch near Vico. The signals in the shot guards the junctio... (more)
Brice bound coal loads pass through Coal Run Jct on the Big Sandy. A matched set of YN2's are a hard thing to come by in 2024 on CRR bound coal loads.
In a scene that could easily pass for Western Canada, Charlotte bound ethanol loads pass through the Pikeville Cut-Through.
