M316 begins their ascent down the 17 mile grade at Altamont with CSXT 911 leading.

M316 passes the former B&O station at Oakland on their way up the Mountain Sub for Cumberland.

M316 crests the summit at Terra Alta with CSX's First Responders unit leading.

CSXT 911 leads M316 out of Grafton on a sunny Spring morning.

After hitting a tree in Morrisville and damaging their lead unit, Amtrak 73 (right) returns back to Raleigh as they pass Amtrak 75 (left), who will pick up 73's passengers at Cary for the trip wes... (more)

A Knoxville & Cumberland Gap southbound passes over the Short Hollow trestle in rural northeast Tennessee with a train of coal and plastics products for NS at Knoxville.

T31 slowly crosses the bridge east of Canton with a train of interchange traffic off NS.

Four SD45 carbodies lead a long T31 back into Canton.

Three ex-D&H GP39-2s work Evergreen east of Waynesville on a T59.

The P63 yard job builds outbound train 135 for Knoxville with a UP ACe leader.

NS's chip local rounds the last horseshoe curve on their climb at the loops with a lengthy train for Asheville.

P87 makes their return trip to Asheville as they pull upgrade in the middle of the the Loops.

P87 slowly works around "the Loops" between Asheville and Old Fort with a train of woodchip empties for Bridgewater. This is one of the more amazing stretches of trackage to observe, esp... (more)

A pair of UP units lead a Bellevue, OH to Linwood, NC manifest around the curve at Kermit enroute to Kenova for a redrew.

A Bailey Mine, PA to Cross, SC loaded coal train races west along the Ohio River in the late evening.