A day after being involved in a wreck due to a rock slide near Isom, CSX #61 sets on the siding at Blair Branch until another train or crew moves it away. This loco was still running at the time o... (more)

The now idled Hogg Loadout on The CSX Whitesburg Branch at Roxana has seen better days. This loader is now owned by Kingdom Coal and hasn't loaded a train in over a year. The cars on the other tra... (more)

"Almost Overgrown" On the outskirts of Elkhorn City as of 2021, The North End of The Clinchfield is still active but the coal loadout to the right appears to have seen better days. On th... (more)

People crowds around this basic ES44AC for the yearly Railroad Day event at Natural Tunnel State Park. The loco was stopped and no one was trespassing beyond bounds at the time.

First this loco was Conrail, second it was CSX, now it belongs to a leasing company called LTEX and it sets to it's lonesome on the house track in Downtown Appalachia. I honestly thought this loco... (more)

These days, The Bates Branch Loadout tends to be a storage yard for Track Maintenance Equipment.

A depressing sight at this once thriving coal loadout, as CSX coal gons rust away.

A pair of faded N&W boxcars still remain present, on the outskirts of Downtown Richlands, Virginia as of 2020.

SAVED FROM SCRAP!! The last of it's kind, in now displayed at the entrance of The Unicoi Tennessee Welcome Center. Clinchfield Railroad 1111 is a short body bay window caboose that once roamed the... (more)

On a overcast fall afternoon, a CSX executive special rolls Northbound along the famed Clinchfield while passing through the ghost town of Dante. This is a welcomed sight along these parts since i... (more)

Again, we find ourselves deep in the hollows of Bell County, Kentucky along The Straight Creek Branch. Seen here is the Vall Loadout which is a part of Straight Creek Mining. As the story goes lik... (more)

Rows of autorack cars occupy Williamson Yard with the now inactive roundhouse in the distant background. I'm assuming these were in storage with the recent downturn in automobile demand due to COV... (more)

An overview of Carter Yard on a warm spring morning.

#2716 sets on display while in the process of being restored all while The Kentucky Steam Heritage Festival takes place on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.

A few years back, I managed to capture a shot of this unit train loadout outside of the very small community of Vico, Ky from the other side of this facility. At that time, the tracks were still i... (more)