Coal drag grinding up the steep grade. Note this years accumulation of sprouting wheat on the #2 track.

Switching headend power after coal drag stalled on Duff Mountain. Fifteen cars front and rear had to be tied down, then power run to the crossover and switched to get lead engine to work.

Southbound U466 pulling coal over the long mountain grade, with a helper shoving on the rear, at MP 212.

CSX S540 coasting downhill off Duff Mountain grade by redbuds blooming on a fine Spring day.

NKP 765 in disguise muscles this C&OHS excursion up Duff Mountain enroute Knoxville.

CSX signal, weathered and not long for this world...

CSX helper northbound at Oaks, after pushing a loaded coal drag over the mountain late in the night.

Mixed freight 8524 leans hard into the curve as she braces for the long climb up Duff Mountain on this snow Feb. day.

Chaska helper has just tied on and this southbound is on the move at Habersham.

Horsepower is winning the fight with gravity as the Chaska Helper shoulders in against the rear of 9,500 tons of black diamonds.

With the Chaska Helper calling out "Moving on the rear" 95 cars back, another SB coal train begins the climb up the KD's Duff Mountain.