With only seconds left before the Tug Fork valley is in the shadows, pusher set J5J shoves coal drag 890 east toward Auville Yard and Iaeger.

Coal drag 81M rounds a curve in the Tug Fork valley and runs into a patch of late evening sun on the Pokey.

With a slight dusting of snow on the trees, NS 77G pulls another seven cars forward for the team of three wheel loaders working on the coal stockpile. The orange railed contraption on the upper tr... (more)

CSX 7714, a leased unit, and another company engine blasting out of Hickory Creek Tunnel, preparing to ascend Duff Mountain.

Q539 with bright shiny power bursts out of the Hickory Creek #2 tunnel, crossing over Hickory Creek in seconds.

Mine run S0W heads toward Bens Creek on the main, while the crew of 81W does a rollby check. The minerun would later become U26, captured by another photog who left the CWC in time to head to Bens... (more)

In a rainy scene, NS 147 has stalled on the wet grade at Elkhorn and has had the J52 pusher hook up. Dispatcher said she was used to this heavy train stalling, but with three on the rear and two o... (more)

With nearly a foot of snow on the ground, this welded ribbon train has been idling away for two days on the siding.

With the evening sun quickly setting in the Tug Fork valley, mine run SOW heads west with pusher set J25 on the rear. There are no rules along this stretch of the Pokey as pushers can work both ea... (more)

Taking nine or more scoops to load each coal hopper, a team of loaders work hard on the first half of a unit train destined for Duke Energy. Shot taken on the Jellico Branch of NS.

In a scene reminiscent of the early seventies, high hood 4105 backs up amid terrible track conditions loaded with clinkers. The Excel Toptiki loadout is just around the corner of this remote secti... (more)

In what earlier had been grain train 52V on the Pokey, crews tie the grain hoppers down and prepare to move a loaded coal train east out of Yards. The head engine is sitting literally on the WV/VA... (more)

With two SDs pulling and one helper on the rear, coal drag N214 comes out of a swag at the end of the Duff Mountain grade and will soon be coasting down to Lafollette.

The Chaska hillhelper conductor waves the engineer back to Q540 in a rare northbound pull over the mountain. Mty coal drag N276 awaits a clear signal north.

With the KD main to the bottom left, a KopperGlo coal train with power unusual for the Jellico Branch sits tied down on the south leg of the wye. The crew has just left by taxi and left the motor ... (more)