“Fire engine red, that thing was hot.” The Honoring our First Responders GE leads coal south down the KD Subdivision.

Northbound grain empties pass by 'High Cliff'

CSX P918-23 exits the gorge at a point referred to as High Cliff on the KD Subdivision as they get ready to enter Kentucky in about a half mile. Here, we get a good look at the new B&O-inspired &q... (more)

CSX P918-23 exits the gorge at a point referred to as High Cliff on the KD Subdivision as they get ready to enter Kentucky in about a half mile. The train is carrying executives as they conduct an... (more)

CSX U717 heads for the Kentucky/Tennessee border as it curves through Highcliff, TN

A freshly repainted "Spirit of West Virginia" leads a southbound loaded company hopper train down the KD Subdivision.

As a misty dusk settles over northeastern Tennessee, NS 787 rolls through the site of the former yard in Jellico before briefly entering Kentucky on its winding journey to the Kopper Glo loadout i... (more)

The L&N and the Southern Railway once had a joint yard in Jellico, TN, but it was removed by Norfolk Southern around ten years ago. NS 787 is seen rolling through the shadow of that yard as it pre... (more)

The inbound Kentucky Derby train, CSX P912, curves out of the gorge and toward the Kentucky/Tennessee as it passes through Highcliff

CSX manifest Q540 rolls north along the Clear Fork River. The L&N's route through the Cumberland Mountains is shared with this river and highway 25W, collectively making use of all the space avail... (more)

Two KCS Belles and two "Big MACs," one belonging to TFM and one belonging to CSX, are on the point of daily manifest freight Q542 on CSX's KD Subdivision. This section of the line trave... (more)

Four GP38s at Jellico on a coal train in 1972.

Remnants of fall.

Red oak leaves, fresh oil stains from a recent standard cab, and wheat sprouting along the tracks. And yes, a shortage of soutbounds this frosty winter morning.

In a plethora of Fall color and sandstone bluffs, a faded Dash 9 comes to a stop just shy of the Holton block. A loaded coal drag has stalled on the mountain at Chaska and must clear up before sou... (more)