With 100 loads of coal from Contura Coal's McClure Mine in tow, T209-17 heads east on the James River Subdivision crossing the line's namesake at Button's Bluff heading for export at Newport News,... (more)

CSX T205-16 with 220-ish loads of coal head down the Guyandotte River Valley on CSX's ex-C&O Logan Subdivision, passing under the rusty cantilever at the east end of double track at the milepost C... (more)

Russell to Waycross manifest Q693-25 with the CSX "Honoring Law Enforcement" heritage unit leading on it's inaugural revenue run crosses the Levisa Fork on a single-track thru-truss brid... (more)

On it's inaugural revenue run since being repainted by the fine folks at the Huntington Locomotive shops, CSX 3194, the "Honoring Law Enforcement" unit leads Russell to Waycross time fre... (more)

After loading 50 system hoppers full of coal at Coronado Coal's Anjean loadout, H801-09 begins the trek back down to Rainelle on the former Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway, where a second c... (more)

Threatening skies loom overhead while a severe storm passes to the west, as H801-09 is tied down on the Rupert Sub main at Rainelle Junction, waiting on a recrew to take the train over the hill to... (more)

After dropping the first cut of 25 loaded coal cars in Hawley siding, H802-09 pauses on the Main Street road crossing while the conductor reverses the switch to come back out on the main. After th... (more)

Emerging from the rock-lined Ridge tunnel, southbound coal train N760-06 has reached the highest point of the Clinchfield Railroad at Altapass and now begins the steep descent down the famous Clin... (more)

After dropping off their pusher crew at Pennington Gap, who assisted with bringing the 110-car train through the last operating mainline switchback at Hagans & setting the rear units up for distri... (more)

A tale as old as time itself.. Brice coal train N313-18 begins the assault on the steep grade at the start of the former Clinchfield Railroad out of Elkhorn City as the rear end distributed power ... (more)

Using trackage rights to return to home rails, the Norfolk Southern Operations, Awareness & Response Safety Train heads north across the North Fork of the Holston River just outside of Kingsport. ... (more)

Southbound coal loads for Eastman Chemical's coal gasification plant head down the Cumberland Valley Subdivision towards the connection with the ex-Southern Appalachia District. After arriving at ... (more)

Ninety loads of coal off the Cumberland Valley Subdivision for Eastman Chemical Company's coal gasification plant roll through Natural Tunnel on the former Southern Appalachia District on CSX trac... (more)

The fourth and final run of the 2018 New River Train crosses the calm New River on track 1 at Hawks Nest at a brisk 10 miles per hour before picking up speed for an on-time arrival at Hinton for t... (more)

Birmingham bound coal train NS 710 rumbles out of the rock-lined Carlos Tunnel at Garland, climbing out of the Tug Fork Valley on the former N&W Dry Fork Branch between Iaeger, WV and Cedar Bluff,... (more)