Santa Train 75. Early on the morning of November 18, 2017, an elevated view looking down from Patty Loveless Drive, shows "The Santa Train" coming around the bend in Elkhorn City,... (more)

Sunset Shelbiana. Recently restored Clinchfield Railroad 800 (F3) sits in Shelbiana, KY on the night of November 17, 2017 before the running of The Santa Train by CSX for the 75th Anniversa... (more)

One of Clinchfield's GP38s awaits the call in the tiny yard at Elkhorn City. Can't get much farther up in the hills than here.

Caboose 1021 may have great paint, but it has other issues. This photo illustrates two things - the Erwin shop area always offered a surprise or two, and the Clinchfield had a weird collection of... (more)

One of ten GP38s (acquired 1967) on the Clinchfield roster, 2006 is seen putting together a train for those SDs in the distance to haul over the mountains to Kentucky. Funny to think about SP an... (more)

Former Seaboard (now Clinchfield) SD45 3632 sits in the large facility near Oak Ridge, TN at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum.

Clinchfield 3632 sits in the late afternoon sun at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

SAVED FROM SCRAP!! The last of it's kind, in now displayed at the entrance of The Unicoi Tennessee Welcome Center. Clinchfield Railroad 1111 is a short body bay window caboose that once roamed the... (more)

Honorably retired. Clinchfield dolled up some their old cabs and sold them at auction. To me that shows something so lacking in the world today, a touch of class. What a crummy Christmas gift t... (more)

Clinchfield 800 passes over the North Fork Holston River in Tom's Bottom, VA with the 75th annual CSX Santa Train.

Clinchfield RR passenger car No. 100 passes the iconic location at Trammell as it prepares to enter the dark confines of Sandy Ridge Tunnel. Santa and other folks on the 100's rear platform give a... (more)

The crowd at Dante, VA on Saturday, November 23, 2019 came out to see The CSX Santa Train. The famed Union Baptist Church is in the background.

The Clinchfield Railroad 100 holds the markers on CSX P936-23 (The Santa Train) as it passes the former Clinchfield Railroad Office, Kingsport, TN on Saturday, November 23, 2019.

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)

Clinchfield 800 creeps across the CSX diamond in Quincy, heading north on the DT&I with an Ohio Rail Experience excursion.