Showing the tight confines of Appalachia where houses, rails, and roadways share the valley bottoms, NS 2771 has just left Dismal Yard headed to Weller.

A set of engines runs light to Knoxville to pick up mtys, then back to Corbin Yard and on to the SE Kentucky coalfields on this warm Fall day.

A pusher set runs west toward Williamson, having left Auville Yard earlier in the day. With all the branches in the vicinity one sees light pusher sets plying the rails throughout the day.

Workers splice together two more sections of welded ribbon rail as it feeds out for miles along the Pokey. This area suffers fast wear on the iron due to heavy coal tonnage and extreme curvature.

Half the power loads the first cut of a unit train while the other half idles to the right on the storage track. The unit train will be taken in halves to John Sevier Yard to be reassembled due to... (more)

Crew readies to depart the east leg of the wye at Wharncliffe, having just cleared Jerry on the Gilbert Branch with loads from Bens Creek.

Coal drag coming from Deepwater passes thru the Mullens Tunnel, enroute to Elmore Yard and the Hill. The train barely made it to Surveyor, even with three on the front and three on the rear, and t... (more)

Coal drag U258 coasts downhill by a scarred B36-7, as most of the cars are still north of Big Creek Gap.

Showing the worse for wear, a favorite SD60 engine with an EOT and dirt idles away at the Carbo Yad office yards from the bridge leading to the Clinch Valley main. The yard serves the huge Moss #3... (more)

With a brakeman in standard Pokey attire watching, NS 217 passes thru the old NW signals enroute to Williamson. On the siding in the background are hoppers being separated and refigured, a tedious... (more)

A long string of mtys is tied down at Clarks Gap siding on a blustery spring day.

Time for a siesta. With Mother Natures air conditioner running and all three engines idling for hours, pusher set J52 sits on the Buchanan Branch wye awaiting a coal drag later in the evening.

18M exits Hatfield Tunnel, heading east in a sea of Fall colors on this early Oct. morning. Moments before, the fog was so thick the tunnels were barely visible.

In a plethora of Fall color and sandstone bluffs, a faded Dash 9 comes to a stop just shy of the Holton block. A loaded coal drag has stalled on the mountain at Chaska and must clear up before sou... (more)

Waiting on a northbound grain train to clear, at MP 212.