Two lite motors whine through the small village like community of Dante, while en route to help get a stalled manifest train up the hill and into Haysi.

A flock of photographers gather to the right of Hughes Branch tunnel as the Santa Train blasts out of the 101 year old tunnel.

Santa Train number 75 makes it's way through the signal at Booty as it reduces throttle to make a stop in St. Paul.

The 108 year old tunnel at Miller Yard yet again sees a Clinchfield painted F-Unit. The 800 poses in it's original CRR gray and yellow paint scheme.

Hundreds of children and adults alike gather around the CRR 800 as it creeps through Ft. Blackmore as the only Christmas that some children will is on the rear of the train.

CRR 800 pokes out of the tunnel as it will coast to a stop at Berta Jct so that tons of gifts can be thrown out at the Santa Train stop at Haysi.

NS 796's three helper locomotives drift under the Watkins signal bridge while helping stop the loaded 84 car coal train. The pushers will cut off just shortly after they pass the signal bridge and... (more)

Part of the old Glenita Rock Quarry can be seen over top of the lead engines of NS 796 and some track equipment that sits in the relatively short Glenita siding.

The sound of two big GE 6-motor engines (EMD is broke down) fill the air as they coming through the valley in Jasper on a Birmingham bound coal train.

The Pennsylvania Heritage unit is on the lead NS 796. The Birmingham bound coal train makes it's way through Irondale just passing the number 9 milepost of the Appalachia District.

Two YN3-B AC4400's blast through Pennington on their empty trip down the Virginia side of the Cumberland Valley.

An empty CSX coal train bound for Lynch, Kentucky comes through the S-Curve at the "Barn Shot" in Olinger.

The weekly CSX barrels past the APP signal in the Strawberry Patch part of Big Stone Gap while on their way down the old L&N's Cumberland Valley.

A lone dash-9 floats around the curve at Sunbright with the T74 crew on board. They will continue the next few miles with just a single engine until a crosstie gon and two covered hoppers are pick... (more)

NS T80 flies high on the ex-Clinchfield RR bridge above the North Fork of the Holston River. This train came from Yuma, on the Appalachia District, and is now taking coal loads to Eastman Chemical... (more)