A mixed freight crosses Hickory Creek enroute to Corbin Yard after being held up for hours by three southbounds.

Dwarfed by the walls of the Hickory Creek gorge, a loaded coal drag makes its way to daylight and across the creek. With the grade already slowing momentum, this one will need a helper across Duff... (more)

A light engine move, two motors, rumbles out of the Hickory Creek tunnel and onward to Chaska.

Q236 Northbound thru the gourge between Morley and Chaska

The rear motor on a five engine set is a surprise. One never knows what they'll use for power on the Q542, though the switcher is probably being shuffled from Knoxville to Corbin yard.

A CSX quality car, right. Most of these decrepit hoppers have to stop at the loadout while company employees patch and use shingles and plastic bags to clog the holes. Otherwise they'd be mty befo... (more)

Mty coal gondolas pulled by lead engine 645 head north, back to the coalfields of KY. The gons have alot of reinforcing ribs, something not visible from ground level.

Deep within the confines of the Hickory Creek gorge, Q539 pulls a hodgepodge of flats, cars, and tankers thru the #2 tunnel. One has to wonder how this line was chiseled thru rock over a hundred y... (more)

A rarity on the KD Sub, grain train K803 pulled by only one motor exits Hickory Creek Tunnel Two and crosses over Hickory Creek enroute to the Duff Mountain grade.

In a torrential downpour, coal drag N214 blasts out of Morley tunnel and over a new bridge that's been installed over Hickory Creek. Work is still awaiting with the toilets and other gear laying a... (more)

And you thought all these were gone. A B30-7 looking like she's got one foot in the grave does bridgework during a blitz on the KD Sub. The ol' gal must have five layers of paint on her, if not mo... (more)

And you thought all these were gone. A B30-7 looking like she's got one foot in the grave does bridgework during a blitz on the KD Sub. The ol' gal must have five layers of paint on her, if not mo... (more)

With friendly wave from the Engineer, CSX 299 and a sister pull a loaded southbound coal train out of the tunnel at Morley, TN on the old L&N. This train will soon be stopping at Chaska, TN to pi... (more)

Sporting an eclectic mix of power thru the rugged Hickory Creek gorge, the daily Q539 ambles out of Tunnel #1 enroute to Knoxville. An SD40-2 and slug bring up the rear of the power.

An old tool shed along the KD in the Hickory Creek gorge collects snow and ice as scores of coal drags roll by each day. Due to the remoteness, bridge crews leave equipment overnight along this st... (more)