Returning from Norton, VA to Loyall, KY during a very well received excursion schedule into the coalfields, this fine old steamer go to go out for a big trip under the auspices of the KRM and SBD.... (more)

This wooden office car is most likely the oldest Southern Railway passenger car in existence. Its long and strange history began in 1870, when it was built for the South Carolina & Georgia Railroa... (more)

An eastbound C train--running radio with eight GP38s--mushes through fresh snow at "Roaring Branch." Still in yard limits, the train is easing downgrade toward Bulls Gap, TN--its ultimate destinat... (more)

A northbound empty hopper train crosses the new bridge (opened in February 1986) linking the former L&N CV Subdivision main at Big Stone Gap with the former Southern Appalachia Division main acros... (more)

At 3:25 AM on the morning of Monday, November 3, 1969, northbound L&N freight number 856, powered by RS-3s 177 and 165, hit an open switch at the north end of the passing track at Big Stone Gap, d... (more)

A morning CSX unit coal train from Loyall, KY to Erwin, TN has just gained NS trackage rights on a colorful fall morning in 2006. Two more AC units are shoving on the rear of this 90-car train.

The rear end pushers on this southbound coal train are nearing the top of the CSX-NS connection at Big Stone Gap.

The signal at the left "dates" this shot to the earliest months of new CTC operation on the NS Appalachia District. This westbound Seaboard System empty unit train running on trackage rights is ab... (more)

Despite the NS paint scheme, this former Southern Railway GP38-2 still sports the distinctive features of a unit that proudly "Served the South." The high mounted bell--similar to the way Southern... (more)

An eastbound unit coal train awaits a clear signal indication from the East End dispatcher at Knoxville, TN. The track on the left belongs to CSX, which attains trackage rights here for the trip o... (more)

In a cold and dreary winter drizzle, NS 5117 idles on the old passing track at Big Stone Gap as a CSX trackage rights train approaches on the main---climbing out of "Furnace Dip."

A northbound three-car inspection train for Seaboard System rolls by a southbound unit coal train in the hole at Big Stone Gap. The two units--116 and FP7A 118--were previously Clinchfield 800 and... (more)

A Sunday evening westbound empty unit coal train has just passed the distant signal for the junction at Big Stone Gap. The train is running on NS trackage rights. With an Approach-Diverging Route ... (more)

Cumberland Valley Division local passenger number 12, a daily Norton, VA to Pineville, KY run, steams downgrade out of Callahan’s Nose Tunnel between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia in July... (more)

One of the first uses of diesel-electric motive power on the south end of the L&N's Cumberland Valley Division in freight service was the RS-3s working the Norton Local out of Loyall, KY to Norton... (more)