Extra South 508 pounds the steel at Levisa Junction on the Big Sandy Subdivision. The train is only 10 minutes out of Shelby Yard, you would have thought they would have caught that burned out he... (more)

Westbound NS 147 has a quartet of 4-axle power on the head end as the crew pauses at Goodman to wait out trackwork ahead. The trackmobile to the left is used to service the ANFO dealer on a regul... (more)

SD40-2 6111 and SD40 1613, both of N&W heritage, prepare to pull a rail train east out of NS's Bluefield, WV yard on a sunny May morning.

An EJ&E SW1200 hits the CSX diamond with a transfer run at Calumet near East Chicago.

SB Q541 crest Richmond Hill at North Fort Estill on the KY Subdivision.

The East Burnstadt Hill Helpers dig in on the rear of a SB GALX train.

CSX 7824, NS 9869 & HLCX 6315 struggle hard near the summit of Crooked Hill with 112 cars of mixed freight. Trailing HLCX 6315 is listed as ex-CP 5522, an SD40.

Arriving at the Hamilton Complex up on Straight Creek, T228 will spend the next four hours inching under the loading chute before a return trip to Corbin.

Eastbound NS 281 creeps up to the summit of the grade inside Bluefield Yard as the rear helpers notch off the throttles. A quick crew change and its on toward Roanoke.

NB up the KY with autoracks. Originally built 12/68 as SP 9001 (SD45). Rebuilt/renumbered 8/83 by SP's Sacramento Shops as SP 7479 (SD45R). Retired from UP 3/31/99; sold 9/30/99. Purchased and re... (more)

Fog off the Kentucky River is slow to burn off as NB Q548 crawls up Winchester Hill on the CC (KY) Subdivision. The site is daylighted KC Tunnel 5 the remains of which are seen to the left.

UP power waits on a train load of western dirt to finish dumping at the Trenton Channel Power Plant.

The U12 mine run crew has just pulled 99 loads off the Delorme Branch up into Williamson Yard where the train will soon get a road crew and be hustling west up the mainline.

Another hot and hazy Appalachian morning finds a time freight rolling EB into the big yard at Williamson, WV.

Finally, after a 90 mile chase, Q541 arrives in a snow-covered Corbin and enters the East Yard over the Highline.