The whine of dynamic brakes echos through the Breaks Interstate Park as empty DKPX train E758-17 (Terrell - Bailey Mine) crosses Clinchfield’s iconic Pool Point Trestle behind a pair of CW44’s... (more)

Surrounded by rock outcroppings that cover this part of Dickenson County, a matched pair of YN2 CW44’s emerge from the north portal of Clinchfield’s 1,040 foot long Hills Mills Tunnel with nor... (more)

Negotiating the hollers of Dickenson County once again, CRR SD40-2 # 8128 is right at home again as it and sister L&N 8138 split the Clinchfield US&S P-5 hardware at S.E. Allen with work train W05... (more)

Spring color has started to pop in Dickeson County as Shelby Shifter R240-14’s pair of GE’s dig in shoving 100 empties up the McClure Spur’s 0.5% grade toward AlphaMet’s McClure Preparatio... (more)

Deep in the hollers of Russell County Virginia, cool mountain air and heavy fog set the scene as CSXT 544 South awakes the small mining community of Dante just before sunrise. Seen here splitt... (more)

With most of their 106 empties still in CRR’s 7854’ Sandy Ridge Tunnel, a pair of endangered CW44’s bring E758-17 (Terrell, Nc - Newell, Pa) through S.E. Trammel. They’ve just crested the ... (more)

The early morning sun glints off the side of E758-17 as they roll downgrade through Allen, Virginia with a CW44 pair and 106 Terrell empties. The train is about to cross Carter Stanley Highway... (more)

As the morning sun starts to creep into the hollers of Dickenson County Virginia, CW44 pair CSXT 520 & 545 hustle north through S.E. Delano with empty DKPX train E758-17 from Terrell.

Fall color in western North Carolina is in full swing as C304-19’s pair of CW44’s (and two DP’s on the rear) grind south through Sams Branch with 114 SCWX loads for Cross, Sc. If you look cl... (more)

After meeting M653-12 at Sevier and climbing the Clinchfield Loops, the rear DP’s on empty E758-13 (Terrell - Ceredo Dock) duck into Vance Tunnel as their train takes the siding at S.E. Toe Rive... (more)

It’s a beautiful spring day along the banks of the Nolichucky River as the rear DP’s on northbound DKPX empty E758-13 (Terrell - Ceredo Dock) roll through Huntdale, Nc on the newly rebuilt Blu... (more)

Built for the Family Lines in 4-79 as part of order IId1, CSXT 8014 leads empty ethanol train K420-14 through the beautiful Green Mountain countryside, passing a CRR whistlepost. They’d meet Q69... (more)

With a lashup straight from the early 90’s, CSXT 8523 & 7735 bring empty phosphate train K811-15 (Cicero, IL - Winston, FL) south on a beautiful summer afternoon, seen splitting the Clinchfield ... (more)

Awaiting it's early morning curtain call, Clinchfield F7A 800 sits on the former C&O mainline at Shelbiana, Kentucky; the start of the Santa Train's 110 mile trip through the Appalachian Region. ... (more)

Sounding like a scene from the 1970’s, veteran engineer Tony King has CRR F3A # 800 wound up climbing the 1.0% grade as the 75th Annual Clinchfield Santa Claus Special splits the US&S intermedia... (more)