A very interesting unit with a great history and a beautiful improvised paint scheme is transiting a rare straight stretch with the southbound Santa Train on a cold day. We hope to see it again s... (more)

The CSX Executive Special highballs through slant in the community of Starnes along The Clinchfield.

NS 740, running as a Z556 on CSX trackage rights, passes through the SE Starnes siding on their way towards Frisco.

Sometimes, when the stars align, the clouds do too. Southbound loaded coal drag N760-05 finds a pocket of sunlight as it rounds the curve at the south end of Starnes in beautiful southwest Virgi... (more)

The 2018 CSX Santa Train clears a grade crossing at Starnes as it passes the ancient US&S signals still standing guard.

Passing the SE Starnes and about to enter the tunnel below, P935, the 76th Santa Train, heads South towards Kingsport.

The 75th Santa Train is about to cross the Clinch River and plunge into a tunnel directly beneath my feet on its way to Kingsport.

In better times on the Clinchfield Railroad, a pair of newer AC locomotives bring southbound Duke Power Coal Train U355-18 through a slow order and low hanging fog as it approaches the classic Cli... (more)

The 2014 CSX Santa Train speeds through Starnes on a very nice November day. As I take this photo, a railroad great, Mr. Ron Flanary, stands next to me.

Three brand new GE ES44ACs (3073-3072-3071) bring a southbound loaded Duke Power coal train around the sweeping curve just north of Starnes Siding on CSX's Kingsport Subdivision. These engines wer... (more)

Veteran CSX/Clinchfield engineer Alf Peoples guides southbound CSX coal loads bound for Fernandina Beach, Florida through the community of Slant, VA on the north end of the former Clinchfield Rail... (more)

A pair of brand new CSX GE ES44ACs (950 and 953) sporting the modified CSX 'boxcar' logo lead train Q696 southbound by the south end of Starnes siding on the former Clinchfield. Thanks goes to Cha... (more)

A pair of brand new CSX GE ES44ACs (950 and 953) sporting the modified CSX 'boxcar' logo lead train Q696 southbound through the elevated curve at milepost 68 on the north end of the former Clinchf... (more)

CSX V347-07 has just exited Starnes tunnel and rounds the curve into the setting sun as it begins the long, steady climb up to Kermit.