The CSX Dash 9 class leader locomotive leads CSX manifest freight Q697 as it passes under the NS bridge and enters Queensgate Yard with the Cincinnati skyline as a backdrop.

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Running southbound along the former Clinchfield Railroad, CSX Q697-25 is surrounded by North Carolina's beautiful fall colors as it crosses a Clinchfiield bridge in Pigeon Roost near Relief, NC on... (more)

At the time of this photo there is but one other train movement on the former Clinchfield between Elkhorn City, KY and Spartanburg, SC. It is the local (H771) from Marion, NC working customers aro... (more)

Only two regularly planned Manifests are currently operating on this segment of the former Clinchfield between Erwin, TN and Bostic, NC. Today's Q697 consisting of 97 cars will exit the Nolichucky... (more)

Two days after CSX announced it would be closing the Erwin, TN terminal; Q697 slices through downtown Spruce Pine, NC.

Two days after CSX announced it would be closing the Erwin, TN terminal; Q697 makes it's way up the Clinchfield Route on a beautiful autumn day passing South End Rocky just north of Rocky 4 tunnel... (more)

Northbound CSX Q697 working through a winter wonderland scene at Trammel, VA on the former Clinchfield mainline.

A short break from the clouds reveals a pair of veteran GE's rolling into Kingsport leading a very short Q697. I must have waited 4 hours on a train in good light, it was a very slow day on the Ki... (more)

A fast freight makes its way over the tall Catawba Bridge deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains.

It looks like something out of Sleepy Hollow, but it's actually the Blue Ridge Sub.

North of Pikeville, KY

CSX Q697 sits idle on the main in a full Kingsport yard and waits on a Southbound coal train to take the siding. The pipes overhead are from the Domtar Paper plant.

CSX 301 works just north of the Kingsport yard to build the rest of Q697 and head North

Two pairs of AC's meet at Toe River siding. 5122 is hard at work dragging loads toward the summit just ahead at Altapass while the conductor of 25-car-long Q697 steps out to inspect the opposing m... (more)

A very short Hamlet, NC to Russell, KY Q697 blasts out of Bird Ridge Tunnel as seen from above Lower Pine Tunnel on the former Clinchfield's very remote assault on the Blue Ridge known as the "Loo... (more)