CSX loaded phosphate train B205 glides down Duff Mountain by the searchlights at 'Habersham' on cold a single digit morning.

CSXT T700-29 rolls across Hickory Creek in Habersham, TN.

CSX P918-23 runs through the gorge on the KD Subdivision as they pass the L&N searchlights that still guard Habersham as head north for Kentucky. The train is carrying executives as they conduct a... (more)

After meeting a Northbound empty ethenol train, T810 gets the clear to proceed South onto single track at Habersham and up the steep Duff Mountain Grade to Killsyth. The heavy coal slowly gets rol... (more)

Engineer Mike Tallent and Conductor Mitchell Hicks shove a loaded T700 up Duff Mountain grade in rural north Tennessee. They're barely making the rail as the wet day has caused the lead engines o... (more)

The day turns into night as Q541 grinds upgrade on Duff Mountain. The train is down to a crawl as the GE's on the front and rear give it all they have in the battle between machine and nature. He... (more)

Loaded coal train T700 is stopped short of the signals at Habersham waiting to meet northbound manifest Q542, viewed from high atop a mountain overlooking the small community tucked away in the C... (more)

CSX CW44AC 278, in classic YN2 paint, leads empty coal train U446 (Jacksonville, FL (FEC) - Resource, KY) through the all-searchlight signal plant at the north end of Habersham siding. This train ... (more)

A pair of CSX GE's bring a long string of empty coal hoppers north across the bridge at Habersham,TN on CSX's KD Sub.

The sound of big GE's fill the air as an empty auto-rack train blasts around the curve and into the small community of Habersham.

CSX 623 hauls an empty autorack train up Duff Mountain at Habersham.

Another southbound coal train grinds up the Duff Mountain Grade, seen here crossing Davis Creek Trestle at Habersham. The Morley helper is shoving on the rear and will cut off on the fly at Kilsyt... (more)

The Morley pusher is in notch-8 and throwing down the sand as they push a 14,000 ton coal train up a .9 percent grade on Duff Mountain.

Admittedly bias towards the coalfields of the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Louisville & Nashville KD Subdivision gave the C&O a good run for its money in terms of tedious mountain grades, rural landscap... (more)