The Norfolk & Western Illinois passenger car, with a brakeman rushing toward the grade crossing to flag traffic. The F units were really working, switching passenger cars around.

Great care has gone in the detail....

With a mixed freight lumbering by, NS crews mix and build an excursion train scheduled to go from Knoxville to Asheville, NC and back. Special thanks to F unit hobbyist Jacob Gwinn for directions ... (more)

Riding a loaded Top Gon down the rails, hoping the brake works. Coal is still loaded in Appalachia the same way it was in the 40's in places, using gravity and light braking to roll the mty under ... (more)

The uniformity of the floodloader coal is impressive.

A coal drag rumbles out of Hickory Creek #1 tunnel, enroute to Georgia Power.

An old Alco with the cab removed and a "phonebooth" added to the front for an operator, deep within the coalfields of Virginia.

With two of three engines down, this southbound coal drag will need more than a little help from the shack at Morley and the helper crew.

With the old Consol VP #8 prep plant looming in the background, an old workhorse rusts under the coal loadout. This Consol met coal operation was closed down several years ago and is currently bei... (more)

While the brakeman lines the switches to head back north, a trackhoe snags one more overhanging cedar to clear the ROW. The worktrain will soon enter the tunnel under Cumberland Mountain and pop o... (more)

A coal move grinds uphill at Chaska, as the helper light is visible under the coaling tower as it heads to the tailend to shove. The helper shacks days are numbered, as a new one has been built at... (more)

A worktrain consisting of a freshly painted GP40-2 and a Jordan spreader prepare to head north, leaving the great state of VA and entering KY on the other side of the tunnel at Hagans Switchback.

End of the line. Not often you find new trackage on a mainline built within the last year. The south tail track of Hagans Switchback has been extended to allow for no doubling of the trains as in ... (more)

Loads off the P-D await crews to take them to the Pocahontas main at Wharncliffe. What a day, with snow, rain, and deep snow later at Clarks Gap. Thanks to Jay for being the navigator riding shotg... (more)

Southbound K803 heads up the beginning of the Duff Mountain grade and will not need a helper today.