A tardy CSX pusher set returning to its home base at Loyall, KY eases down the NS main toward the junction at Big Stone Gap. The "fleet"--an NS T&S gang (for "timber," or alternately "tie," and "s... (more)

The "Southern" NS heritage unit, NS 8099, drops downgrade into a reverse curve at MP 9.4T on the Appalachia District. This is a westbound empty unit train of "common" hoppers.

Clinchfield track and mechanical department crew members (as well as a private contractor's bulldozer) deal with the enormous task of removing three F-units, 47 loaded coal hoppers, and over 3600 ... (more)

In a swirl of exhaust smoke, NS 951 has just knocked down a clear signal at Kings Mountain, en route to Chattanooga with an inspection trip for system officials. A northbound holds well south of t... (more)

Sporting a face only a mother could love, one of the "hit with an ugly stick" CSXT SD40-3s is flanked by GE units at Corbin's locomotive servicing facility.

The engineer on NS 951 has grabbed a modest handful of "Westinghouse" as his four EMD mounts heed the 35 MPH speed board through this 6.5 degree reverse curve at MP 179.5--just south of the bell c... (more)

On the last half mile to the top of the one percent grade from South Fork to Kings Mountain, the NS OCS roars through one of the major 1963 line changes that forever altered the CNO&TP--for the be... (more)

A southbound unit coal train crawls upgrade at Blackwood, VA. This route was abandoned in 1986, but it's still in place--and owned by Norfolk Southern for several years. It appears unlikely it wil... (more)

As a result of the worst derailment in the Clinchfield's history (at Wineger, VA), the line's hotest train--manifest number 97--is in midst of a very circuitous detour. After being pulled through ... (more)

Early in the morning, restored L&N Pacific 152 is moments away from making its first successful break-in run to Lexington, KY and back. Slathered in Alemite grease, the engine's right side eccentr... (more)

Three wide-open L&N F-units shove a northbound coal train over the top of Elkatawa Hill at Yeadon, KY. Caboose 1208 is brand new--a product of L&N's big South Louisville Shops. All these years lat... (more)

During the last days of the "Old CV" between Cumberland Gap and Hagans, a cab hop out of Loyall rolls along at 10 MPH to retrieve a few empty covered hoppers at the SuperGrow fertilizer facility a... (more)

L&N CV Division through freight 66 takes leave of Appalachia, VA after a pick up of interchange cars from the Southern. Lead F7A still wears the original black and cream with orange trim, yellow/g... (more)

Northbound L&N Cumberland Valley Division manifest number 66 rolls out of the north end of 6,244-foot Hagans Tunnel, on the seldom-photographed Kentucky side. The tunnel--L&N's longest--was comple... (more)

An eastbound mixed freight rolls around the six degree curve near the business district in Jonesborough--the oldest town in the state of Tennessee. The Washington County courthouse is seen through... (more)