The lead GE on a northbound empty unit grain train is panned just north of Williamstown, KY, on the last lap into Cincinnati. The veteran Thoroughbred shows signs of being ridden hard and put up w... (more)

Auto rack train 275 works upgrade at Deep Hollow Road near Sloans Valley (also known as "Keno" to some). The grade here is .83 percent, and the milepost is 173.4. This 9.045 mile line change was o... (more)

This single SD70M has been struggling up the grade from South Fork to Kings Mountain, but has now found some more favorable running conditions at Waynesburg, The big SD clatters over the number 20... (more)

Two stored SD70MACs--one in "Bright Future" paint (left), and the other in "Dark Future" colors--are parked along the westernmost track in Corbin's East Yard. The coal silos in the background belo... (more)

I thought this gray scale image had a Richard J. Cook kind of look. Cook wrote a great book on Lima Super Power, of which NKP 765 is a distinguished example. His black and white images of Lima eng... (more)

Except for the welded rail, there isn't much in this scene that couldn't have been in the 1950s. NKP 765 powers around a curve a few miles west of Williamson with an NS employee special.

NKP 765 was fitted with a genuine N&W "hooter" whistle from a class A (2-6-6-4). While most would consider this the "freight" whistle, until the first J-class engines arrived in the '40s, the hoot... (more)

The afternoon (westbound) special for NS employees and their families (Pocahontas Division) rolls along Main 2 en route to the wye at Kermit. After turning, the train will retrace its path back to... (more)

The afternoon (eastbound) special for NS employees and their families (Pocahontas Division) rolls onto Main 2 (the north main) at Panco, on the return to Williamson.

The morning (eastbound to the wye at Devon and return) NS employee special rolls out of the north Hatfield Tunnel at Sprigg. The train has just passed from West Virginia, through Kentucky (the tun... (more)

Big day at Big Stone Gap: This is the first train to cross the just-completed $7M bridge and connection between the former L&N Cumberland Valley Division main to Norton, and the former Southern ma... (more)

Spring foliage is blossoming on this late April day in 1985 as a three-unit set of lite pushers drops downgrade across the Powell River near Big Stone Gap. Locals call this place "Roaring Branch,"... (more)

A little N&W and “Pokey” history is shown here. Two GP9s on a yard crew are switching some cabooses at the busy yard at Bluefield, WV in 1977. The lead unit—877—was constructed brand new for the N... (more)

An 82-car empty train has just backed down from the middle leg of the switchback at Hagans. With the switch at the bottom ("Smiley") now lined for his movement, the conductor walks back to ride th... (more)

The concrete mileposts of the former L&N Railroad were built to last until the Second Coming. Between Ocoonita and Hubbard Springs, VA, a northbound empty hopper train of 82 aluminum air dumps bea... (more)