The West Shifter is done with its setting out of cars and is now heading out of town as it passes by the depot.

C&O veteran engineer Lon Venters Jr. is at the controls as 192 passes through Pikeville on the south end of town. The posted speed through the town was 30 mph. Knowing Lon I know he will waste no... (more)

With empty coal hoppers for the classification yard at Russell in tow, CSX #86 begins the trek up the Big Sandy Valley from Shelby to Russell, passing the ex-C&O bracket signals at the West End of... (more)

Late evening run is caught in last light of day as CSXT 567 rolls down the Big Sandy through Coal Run....

A CSX train of 102 empty hoppers dashes through the snow left by Winter Storm Octavia through the Robinson Creek community south of Pikeville. The train, en route to load at Myra, Ky., was the fir... (more)

Looking at the south end of town we have two truck mine tipples operations. Believe it or not there is five tracks in this photo. The first one on the left goes to the tipple with the truck in the... (more)

West Shifter sets out some plug door boxcars into the Big Sandy Warehouse spur. The black and white box on the left was the call box before radios came into use. This scene is long gone now .Now... (more)

The CSX track geometry train passes through Pikeville and a few remaining hints of vibrant fall color along the Big Sandy Subdivision. The train also has CSX's newest piece of hardware, a rebuilt ... (more)

An eastbound manifest train eases into Shelby Yard the morning after heavy rains soaked the region.

An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)

Still sporting its Canadian Pacific colors, NREX 1287 is a long way from home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

CSX's latest incarnation of their corporate logo adorns this new GE ES44AH basking in the sun at Ford's Branch.

A typical fall morning in Appalachia finds westbound empties passing through the Pikeville Cut-Through. The Big Sandy River peacefully flows below the former C&O mainline.

Coal rolls through the infamous Cut-Thru Project in Pikeville, Ky, where they moved a mountain to divert the Levisa River to keep the city safe from flooding.

Have you ever had one of those locations where you just cant get the shot because you didnt think the sun angle never hit there? Boy was I wrong. This location at the west end of the Pikeville Cut... (more)