A Bevins Branch Shifter does battle with the heavy grade up into Coal Run Tunnel on the Coal Run Sub. The train is passing the former location of Costain Coal's Miller Creek Tipple.
One of the KY's newest hotshots heads for a crew change on the mainline in Corbin past an ariving Georgia Power unit coal train.
Big changes at Dwale on the Big Sandy. The C&O signals are gone and "Dwale" has become "Beaver Junction". The former "Beaver Jct" is now history--progress??
Northbound detour train Q567-29 is burning up the CV Sub's rails with a short consist bound for Corbin. The manifest is passing the Calvin Baptist Church which will soon be filled to capacity on ... (more)
Mty CSX tubs swing around a tight curve on the Logan Subdivision at Harts, WV. The rusting track to the right had served the once busy Hartland Mine which was removed in the mid 1990's.
A westbound set of mty tubs prepares to depart Shelby Yard for loading on the Coal Run Sub as the pushers on the rear of an Extra South perform a brake test before shoving another coal train up to... (more)
CSX 47 & 293 head westbound down the Big Sandy with 102 loads out of the big CONSOL mine at Mousie, KY. The train is passing the big Arch Coal barge transloader near Lockwood which is not rail se... (more)
Southbound through Georgetown on a cool Spring morning.
CSX 338, 524 and several other GE's await the call to duty under the lights on a cool Kentucky evening.
Northbound manifest train changes crews at the depot in Corbin. A former BN SD lease engine lends a helping hand on a warm summer afternoon.
SB Q525 is making 50mph through downtown Smith's Grove, Ky. Too fast to make it over the tracks for better light!
Q541 rolls south under cloudy skies at Rockholds on the KD Sub.
NB through Georgetown on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
A couple of lease units have SB Q215 trying to out race a thunderstorm at Lily on the KY Sub.
It's the "Twilight Zone"! A set of light engines head toward the sand track after shoving a SB coal train to Dante. These two engines were the only things on rails anywhere at Shelby--a very st... (more)