Heading north with 110 empties for Middlesboro to be loaded throughout the week.
After dropping off one lone hopper car in NS' Middlesboro Yard, CSX C700-23 exits the 600 foot long Patterson Branch Road Tunnel on the Harbell Branch between Pineville and Middlesboro. For one... (more)
With the loadout supports now replaced and the derailed coal hoppers removed, work has begun on new track that was displaced by the derailment. Several loaded hoppers were pulled, literally, thru ... (more)
Having originated out of John Sevier Yard in Knoxville, TN, a coal train derailed a week ago under the Middlesboro Mining loadout. Two hoppers were rerailed with another suffering damage and skidd... (more)
"DERAILMENT" NS T09 has derailed under the Apollo fuels loadout in Middlesboro, KY with severe damge to the supports of the loadout and one gon hanging on by a thread.
Of blue and steel... coal hopper mtys are backed up under the loading silo and will be ready for loading in the moring at Middlesboro Minings loadout. For decades the operation was known as Appolo... (more)
This norfolk Southern sits in Middlesboro yard, awaiting a crew and more power to take loads of Bell county coal to Knoxville.
Two brakemen prepare to hook up forty loaded coal hoppers at the Apollo Fuels yard in Middlesboro, KY. The 78E is on it's second crew due to hitting a trespasser on the tracks in Tazewell, TN hour... (more)
L&N Alco power rests at Middlesboro, KY in October 1971.
Former Kinney Branch Mining Geep fondly named George has rolled into Middlesboro to start work for James River Coal. Sadly, an ugly brown paint scheme is in his future and exist to this day.
A former L&N cab in an odd green scheme rest on display along US 25 in Middlesboro, KY.
A CSX mine run loads the very first hopper car at Hignite for the new Santee Cooper contract. Ex-GMP 530 (GP30).
A CSX mine run is just departing the former L&N (now NS-Owned) yard in Middlesboro to run up the hollar for loading. Ex-GMP 530 (GP30).
A mine run has just started flood loading at Bell County Coal's Hignite Loadout on the former L&N's Stoney Fork Branch.
