In the early morning sunlight, the northbound deadhead run of the 75th Annual Santa Train rolls through the community of Fort Blackmore along the former Clinchfield Railroad main line. The deadhea... (more)

After dropping off their pusher crew at Pennington Gap, who assisted with bringing the 110-car train through the last operating mainline switchback at Hagans & setting the rear units up for distri... (more)

Rushing out of Tunnel 3 at Grey Eagle, just north of Kermit, NS 234 with a KCS SD70ACe in tow, leads a convoy of three eastbound trains on the Kenova District towards Williamson and points east.

Rolling off the approach span of the Big Sandy River bridge in Catlettsburg, W020-03 is making all of 10 miles per hour (per timetable rules for the train) before speeding up and "meeting one... (more)

Eastbound empties for the coalfields of eastern Kentucky near the town of Martin begin their journey down the Big Sandy Subdivision, passing the C&O era bracket signals at Calgon, milepost CMG 5.0... (more)

After cresting the 2% grade from Deepwater to Oak Hill, Elmore bound U91 begins down the 1% grade between Oak Hill and Pax, just a few seconds away from crossing the trestle over Painter Creek at ... (more)

A front portrait of former CN GP40-2L #1100 as the pair sits tied down in the yard in Ceredo with the water tower directly behind. Beautiful weather and a brisk breeze accompany the end of a beau... (more)

Crossing the West Virginia/Virginia state line, the pushers on NS 776 are hard at work for the last few miles to Bluefield, passing the CPL's at the east end of Flat Top Yard.

Loaded coal train NS 810 crests the nearly 1% grade climbing out of the Guyandotte River Valley and through Staggerweed Tunnel on the Gilbert Branch, and is now beginning to head downhill towards ... (more)

With loaded scrap gondolas in tow, a former B&O GP40 converted to road slug use leads Russell to Huntington local H702 under the NS Ohio River Bridge at Kenova as the sun continues to fade behind ... (more)

Northbound CSX manifest freight Q542-13 creeps across the Ohio River Bridge into the Queen City of Cincinnati with a KCS Belle leading a grey KCS AC and a CSX GEVO. The double track bridge, which ... (more)

Richmond, VA manifest Q303 rolls through the interlocking at NC Cabin with an eclectic mix of CSX power in tow, approaching their destination of Russell, KY on a dreary January afternoon. The sig... (more)

With the westbound Cardinal and it's setoff of two private cars out of the way, the rerouted stack train off the B&O finishes the run from Clifton Forge to Russell with a set of ex-MoPac & Conrail... (more)

Two hundred and twenty CSX coal buckets pulled by four GE Evolution series locomotives head east down the ex-C&O Logan Subdivision, with the lead locomotive dwarfed by the steam era coaling tower ... (more)

One of the local yard jobs escaping Russell Yard to work the many industries near the classification yard backs down the industrial track for the Wurtland "Riverport" west of RJ Cabin. ... (more)