Q693 winding South on the former Clinchfield just South of Green Mountain.

CSX 2 leads the northbound deadhead Santa Train en route to Kingsport, TN to load for the weekend run south.

An aging CSX C40-8W still sporting the YN2 paint scheme leads K428 North along the former Clinchfield as they pop out of Brushy Creek Tunnel at Green Mountain.

An SD40-2 finds its way on the point of Q693 easing into the siding at Green Mountain for a meet with its counterpart Q692.

Q692 heads northward along the Toe River, approaching the south end of Green Mountain siding. The mid-train DPU is visible across the bends in the river.

The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, pushes the 92 loads up the gentle but lengthy grade of the Blue Ridge Sub.

An empty potash train weaves through the curvature at the north end of Green Mountain on the Blue Ridge Sub.

A pair of Canadian Pacific engines lead northbound empty Charlotte ethanol at Pigeon Roost on the former Clinchfield Railroad in a light snow shower.

A veteran SD40-2 leads CSX Q693 southbound through Green Mountain along the old Clinchfield Railroad

Waycross to Russell mixed freight Q692 exits the 304' long Brushy Creek tunnel along former Clinchfield as CSX 132 leads the train north for a fresh crew at Kingsport.

Curving through the gorgeous Yancey County mountains, a former L&N SD40-2 leads a northbound empty ethanol train toward the south end of the siding at Green Mountain to meet Q693. This train will... (more)

Traveling over the former Clinchfield main line along the Toe River, a northbound CSX freight curves through Green Mountain, North Carolina, on a sunny May 11, 2014.

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)

As a dreary fall day on the Blue Ridge Subdivision comes to a close, a veteran standard cab C40-8 leads southbound manifest Q696-25 through the Classic Clinchfield Intermediate at Whitson's Branch... (more)

End of an era: With the announcement earlier in the day that the Clinchfield would be mothballed north of St. Paul, VA, this became the final Q697 to run through to Russell, KY. Here 697 passes ... (more)