When the Clinchfield took delivery of their new GP7's in December 1950, it did not take management and crews to realize that they should have purchased the units with dynamic brakes. With the next... (more)
Delivered in 1942 from American Car and Foundry, 1062 was 1 of 7 of the FC-5 class that was patterned after, but different from the design that was common on Santa Fe trains. These cabooses were d... (more)
Clinchfield southbound 92 sits at the south end of the Erwin yard awaiting clearance to enter the single track that covers a significant portion of the Clinchfield in the Nolichucky River Gorge. T... (more)
One of the early ventures into dieselization that the Clinchfield did was on EMD's F-units. Delivered in December 1952, 818 was a standard F7A that the railroad initially planned to run on the rai... (more)
Power is gathered around the Erwin diesel shop. The Clinchfield would service power that would keep heading north or south with sand and fuel. Major repairs were done in the shops on the other end... (more)