Tax day and another freight is waiting to head across the mountain and up to Nashville. Not an old unit but showing a lot of signs of hard use.
The setting sun provides a scenic backdrop as loaded Bryce bound coal train N904 skirts along Nickajack Lake at a good pace. It will shortly begin it's assault up Raccoon Mountain.
Q692 passes under the cantilver at Fords Branch, having just left Shelby on their way to Russell.
With a winter storm approaching the Northeast, a CSX mixed freight races eastbound just after 9:00pm. Its final destination is Springfield yard, just ten miles away. The Conrail tri-light signals ... (more)
Weaving its way southbound out of the Erwin Terminal, CSX 756 leads a loaded unit Duke Power Coal train upgrade through a s-curve and as it knocks down one of the many Classic Clinchfield Railroad... (more)
Winding upgrade just south of Erwin, Tennessee, CSX 756 and company lug a southbound loaded Duke Power Coal Train bound for Brice through an s-curve at Chestoa on the former Clinchfield Railroad. ... (more)
CSXT 756 zooms by one of many railfans in attendance at this year's Folkston Railwatch 2014
A CSX trash train, with 756 leading, heads through Piscataway.
Two young Wild Wing Cafe patrons abandon their parents and dinner to watch a passing CSXT train go by the restaurant, which used to be the Southern Ry., then Amtrak station.
In a pan shot at night CSX 756 screams through track three hauling piggybacks.
Visitors in three shades of blue at UP's Avondale Yard.
Lookout Mtn in the background
A early morning manifest crest the Grade at Sandpatch