A coal drag for the Carolinas crosses the Russell Fork in Elkhorn City, Kentucky.

Northbound CSX train M692-10 crosses the Pool Point bridge, spanning the Russell Fork just South of Elkhorn City, Kentucky. Leading the train is CSX 3194, the specially painted “Honoring Law Enf... (more)

It's just after daybreak and the fog is still hanging as CSX P001-19, the 80th anniversary of the CSX Santa Train heads south across Pool Point trestle in Elkhorn City, KY.

Up And Out Early. The return of "The Santa Train" for 2022 was greeted with the CSX Office Car Train in its Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) tribute paint for the first time. There... (more)

DPs shove hard on the back of this loaded coal train bound for the Brice power plant at Terrell, NC. In a 2x2 DP setup, 4 GEs locomotives work these 108 loads as they begin the climb out of Elkhor... (more)

CSX K428 cruises across the Russel Fork at the famous Pool Point trestle near Elkhorn City, KY.

K447 (Charlotte, NC Ethanol) crosses the Russell Fork into Elkhorn City, KY on a beautiful December afternoon along the former Clinchfield mainline.

On a beautiful morning, loaded McClure Turn R244 splits the Clinchfield signals and early spring blooms at the South End of Delano with bright future-painted CW44AC 451 rounding out the colorful s... (more)

With blue skies overhead, R240 exits Pool Point Tunnel and eases by the vintage signals at the South End of Elkhorn with coal loads out of McClure bound for Shelby. Old signals, coal trains, and b... (more)

Santa Train 75. Early on the morning of November 18, 2017, an elevated view looking down from Patty Loveless Drive, shows "The Santa Train" coming around the bend in Elkhorn City,... (more)

With a “new” YN3 painted SD70MAC rebuild leading, Q694-30 crosses Pool Point bridge just South of Elkhorn City, KY on the former Clinchfield.

One of Clinchfield's GP38s awaits the call in the tiny yard at Elkhorn City. Can't get much farther up in the hills than here.

A pair of GE's lead CSX manifest freight Q693 through Elkhorn City, Kentucky and crosses over the Russell Fork in the early morning hours of a misty day in the Appalachians.

"Almost Overgrown" On the outskirts of Elkhorn City as of 2021, The North End of The Clinchfield is still active but the coal loadout to the right appears to have seen better days. On th... (more)

CSX Q694 breaks the quiet of the night as it heads north through Elkhorn City, Kentucky and past the Clinchfield signals at North Elkhorn. This was once the location where the C&O and the Clinchfi... (more)