Currently, this is a common scene in the Central Appalachian Coalfields: rusty rails and rusty coal hopper trucks. This SCWX hopper sits in Loyall, KY waiting for action.

On a cold, snowy day, EMDX 1204 eases through the south end of the Loyall Yard with empty GALX coal hoppers. It will soon receive a fresh crew and continue to Hilo to pick up a load of Black Diam... (more)

A westbound unit coal train enters the yard at Loyall, KY on May 30, 1978, led by SD40-2 No. 3579. This was a time of change. There were plenty of unit coal trains and they would be the future o... (more)

L&N C420s No's. 1325 and 1353 idle away in the engine terminal at Loyall, KY on the night of May 30, 1978, awaiting their next mine run assignment.

L&N RS36 No. 910, mated with a slug, rests between shifts at Loyall, KY on a steamy May 30, 1978. No. 910 began life as Tennessee Central No. 301. L&N had some interesting slug sets. They did a... (more)

Two GEs are ready to take a train south after a summer rain storm at Loyall, KY. The ground is covered in spilled coal--so it's pretty obvious what commodity dominates this line.

L&N power lays over in the engine terminal at Loyall, KY on the evening of Nov. 12, 1977.

The first six-motor units to ever operate on the L&N's Cumberland Valley Division was this trio of Alco C-628s. Scrubbed up a bit through the early morning hours at Corbin for the assignment, the ... (more)

As railroad photographers, too often we zone in entirely on the locomotives, the trains, or the infrastructure—and ignore the only reason these very things exist and operate: flesh and blood railr... (more)

Corbin (KY) to Norton (VA) through freight 65 picks up an extra RS-3 at Loyall to handle some additional southbound tonnage. The extra Alco will lug 1325 additional tons on the run to the N&W inte... (more)

Two Clinchfield SD45-2s are bracketed by two SD40s as the pooled six-motor units get underway to St. Paul, VA with a coal train at the L&N's Loyall, KY yard. Clinchfield power had only recently be... (more)

The first trick yard job at Loyall, Kentucky is making up the empty hoppers and other business for the next day's mine runs. The second trick job will take over shortly and continued weighing and ... (more)

Alco RS-3s of the Louisville & Nashville await assignments at the coalfield terminal at Loyall. Several mine runs were based here at the time, and through trains would often add or drop units base... (more)

Illustrative of the power-short days on the L&N in 1975-1980 is this morning scene at the small coalfield terminal of Loyall, Kentucky. Leased/borrowed SCL and N&W SD45s congregate with L&N's own ... (more)

The southbound Loyall-Varilla mine run rear-ended a standing freight on the former double track on the north end of Loyall Yard on this foggy day in 1958. This was CTC territory, but the track on ... (more)