When the Wabash became part of the N&W in 1964, it was only logical that the home road send this notable unit--the 10,000th constructed by EMD--to the transportation museum in its headquarters cit... (more)

Many years ago--before CSX management wasn't quite so anal about the public relations value of running steam--borrowed UP Challenger 3985 masquerades as "Clinchfield 676" on the 50th running of th... (more)

An eastbound C train--running radio with eight GP38s--mushes through fresh snow at "Roaring Branch." Still in yard limits, the train is easing downgrade toward Bulls Gap, TN--its ultimate destinat... (more)

If you thought the Interstate's RS-3s were the last such Alco units to operate at Andover, VA---here's some visual proof that another RS-3 worked there several years later. Westmoreland Coal acqui... (more)

A northbound empty hopper train crosses the new bridge (opened in February 1986) linking the former L&N CV Subdivision main at Big Stone Gap with the former Southern Appalachia Division main acros... (more)

Clinchfield's last four F-units were operated as an A-B-B-A set working out of the coalfield terminal at Dante in 1981. Here, the "final four" are taking a break from weighing coal. Thankfully, th... (more)

On one of her early public excursions after restoration in 1982, N&W 611 stands at Bluefield, West Virginia before departing with a round trip to Iaeger, on the Pocahontas Division main line. The ... (more)

With the recent announcement that funds are being raised to resteam N&W Class J 611, this scene gives us a taste of what could be in store. The famed Roanoke-built engine is rolling downgrade thro... (more)

A southbound unit coal train bound for South Carolina Electric and Gas' plant at Wateree crosses the North Fork of the Holston on the last lap into Kingsport. The train has traveled from its loadi... (more)

Technically, this track has belonged to Norfolk Southern for something like 15 years, but it was first built by the Louisville & Nashville in 1891, and operated until early 1986. A local coal comp... (more)

Found in the small former Interstate yard at "Top," the control point in Norton is this odd piece of track work. This still in-service spur features several 80-pound rails rolled by Carnegie Steel... (more)

Running in reverse, the Virginian heritage unit is working a mine run out of Norton. The crew is pulling ten loaded hoppers from the small coal spur at Mineral, just west of Tacoma.

After bringing a train of empties into Appalachia, the engineer of this westbound has tied her down, locked the door, and is now heading to the warmth of the crew van for a short ride to Andover t... (more)

Running in reverse, the Virginian heritage unit is working a mine run out of Norton. Here, the crew has tied onto about a dozen Top Gon empties to take back toward Norton for loading.

The N&W's 250-ton Industrial Brownhoist derrick from Bluefield, WV is cleaning up the west end of a major derailment on the Southern at Glenita, VA.