Southbound CSX loaded unit grain train G656-22 rolls by the passing and storage sidings in the small community of Slant, VA. However, the railroad name for this place is Starnes. The train is op... (more)

NS 8952 is on the lead of a loaded Duke Power train (DKPX). They are coming through Starnes main, in the little community of Slant.

A CSX northbound empty unit train is dropping downgrade off the Clinch River Bluffs on the approach to the siding at Starnes, VA. The green stuff between the rails comes from spilled grain from co... (more)

CSX's business train deadhead move P902 is in the final stages of running around its train at Starnes Siding before heading back south toward Jacksonville. The train had been deadheading north tow... (more)

A little human interest: In 1990, a CSX welder grinds down his weld on the frog at the turnout at the south end of Starnes (VA) siding. Track work like this takes a pounding, so it's a constant ef... (more)

Southern fan trip queen 4501 is rolling south on the former Clinchfield at Starnes with the return leg of a Kingsport, TN to Richlands, VA round trip.

The Clinchfield was very accommodating to our local NRHS chapter during the ‘70s, when general manager Tom Moore’s excursion program was in full swing. Our group chartered several “steam-only” tri... (more)

On the former Clinchfield main line (now CSX's KP Subdivision), a southbound loaded unit coal train gets underway again after meeting two northbounds (both general mixed freights). The signal post... (more)

A northbound empty train takes the siding at Starnes to meet X8600South--a unit coal train. This is the Kingsport Subdivision--the north end of the former Clinchfield Railroad.

A southbound NS trackage rights train eases down the siding at Starnes, VA to meet a CSX northbound. The old store here has been closed for many years (which should be obvious).

A southbound NS trackage rights train eases around the curve on an approach signal at the north end of Starnes. The train will take siding here to meet a northbound CSX coal train--the owner of th... (more)

It's an EMD day at Starnes siding as a southbound unit coal train (left) holds the main for a CTC-meet with a northbound empty hopper train. The community name here is Slant, but railroaders know ... (more)

A slug-mother set backs a rail train northward on the ex-Clinchfield.

A Bluegrass Railroad Club excursion rolls south at Starnes. No---this train isn't being "pulled" by the Ten Wheeler up front, but by those two Pullman green F7Bs behind. The One Spot is there to m... (more)

A southbound CSX coal train hustles down the former Clinchfield at rural Starnes, VA--past a bad-ordered ex-Conrail hycube box set out earlier.