The CSXT office car special rolled over the Big Sandy and Kingsport Subdivisions, stopping at a few locations for executives to tour facilities on the former Clinchfield. Just before touring King... (more)

Passing through Duffield on a sunny fall day.

NS in Nature: Though I am not usually inclined towards long expeditions into the wilderness - even for trains! - a mixture of curiosity and (relative) proximity prompted me to attend the 20... (more)

Coal loads for Eastman in Kingsport make their way south on Norfolk Southern as they wind through Natural Tunnel.

Fall colors start to appear deep in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia as CSX T090 moves a cut of 45 loaded hoppers along NS trackage rights through Duffield, on it's way to Kingsport Tn for E... (more)

A CSX empty coal train pulls out of the siding after meeting a loaded coal train.

Filling the deep gorge with the roar of hard working prime movers, a loaded Norfolk Southern coal train blasts out of the southern portal of the famed Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia... (more)

Magical morning. As the sun was just beginning to rise and the fog lifts at 0550 on Friday, November 17, 2017, Southern Appalachia Railway Museum’s former Seaboard Coast Line SD45 2024 emerges o... (more)

The pushers on the rear of Eastman coal train T090 disapear into the Earth at Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia as an autumn day winds to end.

NS empties roll northward along the NS Appalachia District, the locomotives completely dwarfed by the massive north portal of Natural Tunnel.

Natural Tunnel... A place that has been on my shot list for years is Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia, this tunnel was mostly carved by Stock Creek. The railroad had to carve through ... (more)

People crowds around this basic ES44AC for the yearly Railroad Day event at Natural Tunnel State Park. The loco was stopped and no one was trespassing beyond bounds at the time.

A rock wall towers high over the rails of the old Southern in Natural Tunnel, providing the backdrop for a CSX Scrubber train out of Loyall, Ky as it winds its way toward Eastman in Kingsport, TN... (more)