The last of the Fall colors shined brightly as the sun began to set at Copper Creek with CSX 391 Spirit of Dante doing the honors on the former Clinchfield line.

The creaking of rails and the resounding rumble of GE motors echo through Natural Tunnel as CSX trackage rights coal load C090 snakes its way through. They're are framed as they exit the south por... (more)

Natural Tunnel is a massive naturally formed limestone cave located in the Natural Tunnel State Park near Duffield, Virginia. The 850 foot long, 80 foot tall and up to 200 foot wide tunnel was car... (more)

Local U41 heads back to Appalachia after turning at Frisco, TN. This was my first time at Natural Tunnel and it was a cool as I'd hoped.

The CSXT office car special rolled over the Big Sandy and Kingsport Subdivisions, stopping at a few locations for executives to tour facilities on the former Clinchfield. Just before touring King... (more)

Passing through Duffield on a sunny fall day.

NS in Nature: Though I am not usually inclined towards long expeditions into the wilderness - even for trains! - a mixture of curiosity and (relative) proximity prompted me to attend the 20... (more)

Coal loads for Eastman in Kingsport make their way south on Norfolk Southern as they wind through Natural Tunnel.

Fall colors start to appear deep in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia as CSX T090 moves a cut of 45 loaded hoppers along NS trackage rights through Duffield, on it's way to Kingsport Tn for E... (more)

A CSX empty coal train pulls out of the siding after meeting a loaded coal train.

Filling the deep gorge with the roar of hard working prime movers, a loaded Norfolk Southern coal train blasts out of the southern portal of the famed Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia... (more)

Magical morning. As the sun was just beginning to rise and the fog lifts at 0550 on Friday, November 17, 2017, Southern Appalachia Railway Museum’s former Seaboard Coast Line SD45 2024 emerges o... (more)

The pushers on the rear of Eastman coal train T090 disapear into the Earth at Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia as an autumn day winds to end.