The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)

Natural Tunnel... A place that has been on my shot list for years is Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia, this tunnel was mostly carved by Stock Creek. The railroad had to carve through ... (more)

People crowds around this basic ES44AC for the yearly Railroad Day event at Natural Tunnel State Park. The loco was stopped and no one was trespassing beyond bounds at the time.

A rock wall towers high over the rails of the old Southern in Natural Tunnel, providing the backdrop for a CSX Scrubber train out of Loyall, Ky as it winds its way toward Eastman in Kingsport, TN... (more)

Loads of coal for Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, TN exit the Earth at the south portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia shortly after daybreak on a muggy may morning. Someday I'll be loo... (more)

The silence and solitude of night in rural Appalachia is briefly disrupted as 79K exits the west portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, VA on May 22nd, 2019. Minutes later, the sounds of a mounta... (more)

This area is known as South Draw deep in Tunnel District of Rio Grande's Moffat Road. The natural horseshoe of South Draw is used by the railroad to gain elevation on the climb to the Continental... (more)

The South Atlantic and Ohio railroad constructed tracks through the Natural Tunnel in 1893. Today this is part of the NS Appalachia District and Nature Tunnel State Park. CSXT operates trains over... (more)

NS 799 exits Natural Tunnel with a pair of matching BNSF GE's leading an empty hopper train bound for Andover.

Ninety loads of coal off the Cumberland Valley Subdivision for Eastman Chemical Company's coal gasification plant roll through Natural Tunnel on the former Southern Appalachia District on CSX trac... (more)

With a matching pair of YN2 GE's, T090 exits Natural Tunnel headed Eastbound for Kingsport via NS trackage rights.

The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)

The sun lights up Natural Tunnel as 45 loads of coal bound for Eastman in Kingsport heads south as a clean YN2 AC44 leads the train on the NS Appalachia District.

Empty coal bucket 799 exits the dark confines of Natural Tunnel and into the nearly foot of snow that fell a couple days earlier.

Two big GE's bring a long string of empty coal hoppers down grade through the giant rock formation at Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia.