As-built and de-powered Alcos team up to work the L&N yard in Corbin.

CSX Q694 breaks the quiet of the night as it heads north through Elkhorn City, Kentucky and past the Clinchfield signals at North Elkhorn. This was once the location where the C&O and the Clinchfi... (more)

Big Blue in the Blue Ridge At one point in time, a mighty operation that loaded daily. Now, traffic is sparse and they only see a few trains a month. Way back in the corner of Pike County, Kybe... (more)

L&N eventually acquired a pretty big group of C420s, but not in the usual way. First, L&N purchased 16 new C420s from Alco, then two more were acquired with the takeover of the Tennessee Central,... (more)

A three-builder set of locomotives has an empty coal rain really rolling just a few minutes out from the yard at Corbin.

This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)

Back when the trains still ran here.

CSX EMD SD40-3 rebuild No. 4060 skirts along the Ohio River in a brutally cold snow squall on the evening of January 14, 2018. The empty coal train is following the former C&O mainline west toward... (more)

What I'm assuming to be an empty ethanol train rolls past Watergap crossing as it heads toward Russell.

Crossing the mighty Ohio River this empty coal train is eastbound on its way to Russel Kentucky.

Westbound V691 passes under the cantilever signal at OX Cabin, on their way from Shelby to Russell with an SD50-3 leader.

Westbound CSX V691-30 passes under the C&O cantilever at East End Pauley on their way to Russell with an SD50-3 leader...this was about a 15 second sucker hole of sunlight as the whole trip was cl... (more)

A Letcher County shot from last week.

Russell bound manifest Q694-13 crosses the Levisa Fork westbound on the Big Sandy Subdivision on a dreary March afternoon. At left is the bridge of the Big Sandy Sub's predecessor, the Chatteroi R... (more)

Eastern Kentucky is still recovering from the 2021 Ice Storm but the railroad keeps chugging on. A relatively short Q693 makes its way south on the Big Sandy Subdivision in the evening light with ... (more)