Getting them ready for a mine run.

Shifting a cut of coal cars in the yard

CSX 294 & 422 arrive at Shelby with 48 loads out of the Neece Creek Mine down on the old Clinchfield. The power is passing the old steam-era water tank about midway through the yard at Shelby.

After calling out "Moving on the rear" a set of pusher engines notch open the throttles and begin a 30-mile shove south out of Shelby Yard.

Looking more like a C&O H-8 from years gone by, pusher power smokes up the west end of Sheby Yard after shoving a unit coal train up to Dante.

CSX 9052 rests at the West End of Shelby with a worn-out C40-8 of "unknown descent!"

CSXT 8249 leaving Shelby Yard.

A EB mine run out of Ivel eases along the bluffs overlooking the Levisa Fork just west of Shelby Yard.

A WB sits on the Big Sandy mainline awaiting a empty spot in Shelby Yard to open up on a foggy summer morning.

Feeling right at home near the Shelby turntable, this former Chessie unit continued to wear her colors proudly if somewhat worn right thorugh her twilight years.

WC 6521 prepares to lead a unit ore train down the old Clinchfield on a perfect June morning.

A single GE brings a Newport News bound train out of Shelby Yard and heads down the Big Sandy Subdivision. The train was loaded the night before down on the old Clinchfield's Nora Branch at Neece... (more)