CSX Q697 sits idle on the main in a full Kingsport yard and waits on a Southbound coal train to take the siding. The pipes overhead are from the Domtar Paper plant.

CSX 301 works just north of the Kingsport yard to build the rest of Q697 and head North

CSX V392 moves over 5400 feet of Duke Power coal South on the CSX Z line

CSX V343 works South to meet 2 Nortbounds at Johnson City.

The crew has just doubled this loaded coal train together and performed a brake test and are now ready to Depart the Kingsport yard Southbound.

CSX yard power idles at Kingsport, TN on a beautiful late November day.

Approaching the end of the 110-mile journey from Shelby, KY, the CSX Santa Train crosses the Holston River just north of downtown Kingsport.

After doing its daily Kingsport yard work, Q696 is back on the move again and is about to enter Holston Tunnel and cross the South Fork of the Holston River.

Former Fordyce & Princeton SW1500 now working for RailLink at Kingsport's Eastman plant seen dragging five inbound tanks back into the plant at the CSX/NS interchange tracks at South Hill.

Switching with a GP-38-2S, that's a castrated GP-40-2 ala CSX

Still a real GP-40, this old unit switches General Shale

CSX 4843 leading a southbound coal train through Kingsport.

CSX southbound Santa Train leaving Kingsport to begin its deadhead move back to Jacksonville.

Santa Train nearing end of annual run.

Coal empties waiting for track clearance