By 1980, most of the Clinchfield roster had lost a lot of the gray and yellow units that had made the Clinchfield as beautiful as the country that it operated in. Despite this, the roster was sti... (more)

The true headless horseman of the mountains: the Haysi Railroad 1. Originally CRR 852, the B-unit was sold and converted to be operated by radio control between the tipples. The locomotive still e... (more)

With the help of two B units, the mighty Clinchfield 1 spot pulls hard with 12 coaches in tow. The little 10 wheeler would often struggle to pull two of the coaches that the Clinchfield owned, but... (more)

A southbound coal drag roars out of Pool Point Tunnel in notch 8. From here to Sandy Ridge Tunnel, just north of Dante, VA, it is a steady grade that requires helpers, and with the long coal drag... (more)

Grand Trunk Western Westbound freight 389 had a bit of an unexpected delay while attempting to enter the yard on the Port Huron Wye. Just a few cars past the switch, the old, jointed rail on the w... (more)

CRR 3013, an SD40 from the first batch of SD40's the Clinchfield ordered from EMD sits in Spartanburg, SC awaiting their next assignment. Another batch of SD40's would follow a year after this ph... (more)

The first slide I ever purchased; a local freight returns to the Elkhorn City yard and passes an F7 sitting in the Elkhorn City locomotive terminal. 35mm slide from my collection, photo by Robert... (more)

One of the best done special effects shot on film I have ever seen, the strong rising sun glints off of the side of a pair of GP18's as they race westbound through Durand with a freight. 35mm sli... (more)

One of the most popular rebuild programs of the 1970's and 1980's was the Paducah GP11 rebuild. The talented mechanics for the Illinois Central Gulf at the Paducah, KY shops developed a program t... (more)

In the last years of the Clinchfield, the railroad acquired 3 transfer cabooses. These were used mainly on mine runs and were beneficial due to the large platform that made protecting shoves safe... (more)

Only about a decade prior to this, the Ann Arbor would not be passing a switch to exit their yard and enter mainline trackage, however, through a track agreement with Grand Trunk Western, the AA w... (more)

Originally owned by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, passed on to Louisville & Nashville, purchased by the Clinchfield Railroad, and eventually purchased by Clinchfield Coal Company, CCO... (more)

Uploaded just for RP contributor Joe Hinson, The Clinchfield 100 was the railroad's special monster weight business car built by the railroad, and ironically, the number according to estimates was... (more)

By 1980, the family lines scheme had overtaken a lot of the classic Clinchfield roster, as is evident with one of the railroads older power units, GP38 2002. Shown with the Marion shifter, it sits... (more)

Resting next to the Ann Arbor back shops are a long line of the railroads GP35's. The back shops burned to the ground a few years after this photo, taking AA 386 with it. 393 is still in service... (more)