The sun is up, but hasn't yet had the time to burn off the nights fog on an unseasonably cool August morning. Soon the fog will be gone and 6414 and partner slug will be back at work out of Patio ... (more)

J43 begins their shove up the Delorme Branch, with the conductor riding the cab blowing the whistle for the KY-194 crossing, with its unique cantilever guarding.

Westbound S697 passes through Fords Branch, under the former C&O cantilever, having just left Shelby for Russell.

Westbound S697 passes through the Pikeville Cut Through, a man-made river and railroad reroute away from downtown Pikeville. Daily freight has just returned to this stretch of railroad in the past... (more)

Empty grain hoppers make their way west with Old Glory flying above the cab on this Fourth of July weekend. In the distance, the former C&O signal bridge can be seen, still standing after the repl... (more)

J43 has begun their short trip up the Buchanan Branch with the Interstate Heritage Unit on point. A couple of miles ahead at Burke, they will swap trains with U59 and take their train back to Will... (more)

Loaded coal train T444 passes under the C&O cantilevers at Dawkins on the Big Sandy Sub as it heads north to Russell for a fresh crew.

With an increasingly rare matched set of locomotives still in the older CSX YN2 or "Bright Future" paint scheme on the point, a very short version of manifest freight Q539 rolls southbou... (more)

On a beautiful spring afternoon, a pair of AC GE's break the silence in the community of Pineville, Kentucky as they bring W684 northbound by the L&N searchlights at NE Pineville on the Cumberland... (more)

Louisville & Nashville Alco FA-2 369 and two RS-3s at Williamsburg, Kentucky. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Took me awhile to figure out the CSXT's spaghetti bowl of branchlines for their Kentucky Coal System. The CSXT has a branchline that runs from Martin, KY, off the Big Sandy Sub to Hazard, KY. Part... (more)

Eastbound Duke Power coal train T402-23 passes the idled Prater Creek Mine at Ivel, KY heading for Shelby Yard with 109 loaded coal cars. T402-23 is a test train heading for Duke Power's Cliffsid... (more)

Took me awhile to figure out the CSXT's spaghetti bowl of branchlines for their Kentucky Coal System. The CSXT has a branchline that runs from Martin, KY, off the Big Sandy Sub to Hazard, KY. Part... (more)

The CSXT has a limestone loader on the ex-L&N mainline west of Sinks, KY, off the CC Sub. The CSXT use 9 miles off this ex-mainline to access this loader on the west side of Mount Vernon. Here an ... (more)

T131 rolls past the multitude of searchlights that govern the wye with the Straight Creek Branch in downtown Pineville.