The big celebrity is on the other end of the train, that is, UP3985, disguised as CRR 676. But the big celebrity couldn't get her centipede tender around the wye so a lowly freight unit gets the ... (more)

A somewhat unusual paint job on this unit handling yard duties with its "Mom".

On another SB coal train, fairly plentiful in those days.

What is that switching the "Santa Train". Sometimes the workaday players are interesting too. These were rebuilt by C&O, reduced to 2000HP and they lasted for several years, doing a g... (more)

The yard switchers in Kingsport are about the only place to see CSX B-B EMDs around here. This one must have been an early repaint. Remarkable that the C&O sublettering remained this long.

A northbound CSX coal train crosses a bridge over the North Fork of the Holston River at Kingsport, Tennessee, on the afternoon of May 13, 2014.

Southbound coal train leaving Kingsport, TN in February 1984 behind SD40-2 8285 still showing its Clinchfield heritage.

There are still places where money is earned by adding value, a radical concept alive and well here, as yet another southbound coal trains threads it way through thriving industry.

NB empties

CSX #3044 leads this southbound coal train of the classic Holston River Bridge in Kingsport, TN.

The 2013 Santa Train crosses the north fork of the Holston River just before arriving in Kingsport, Tennessee. Santa will be delivered and the parade will begin.

Arriving right on the advertised, the 71st Santa Train completes its north-south run and will allow Santa to take his place of honor in the city's Xmas Parade.

Needing more power, Clinchfield leased F units from the RF&P as shown here with 1201 leading a southbound and meeting CRR Train 95 North at Johnson City, Tenn. yard. No. 95 has an RF&P unit in i... (more)

Clinchfield GE 3602 has southbound tonnage in tow at Pactolus, Tenn. on June 21, 1972. CRR's units were going black, the era of gray with yellow breasts had passed.

Clinchfield SD45-2 3612 is in charge of coal empties returning to mines as the northbound extra crosses Rotherwood Bridge over the north fork of the Holston River, north of Kingsport, Tenn