After dropping off one lone hopper car in NS' Middlesboro Yard, CSX C700-23 exits the 600 foot long Patterson Branch Road Tunnel on the Harbell Branch between Pineville and Middlesboro. For one... (more)

An empty coal train out of Shelby Yard is bound for loading off this SV&E Sub. The SV&E (Sandy Valley and Elkhorn) is a short 17 miles branchline that runs out of Shelby Yard off the Big Sandy Sub... (more)

An empty coal train bound for loading off the SV&E Sub, switches cars out at Shelby Yard. The SV&E (Sandy Valley and Elkhorn) is a short 17 miles branchline that runs out of Shelby Yard off the Bi... (more)

The conductor watches as the train is reversing a single covered hopper back onto a side track under highway 80, to the fertilizer plant nearby. On a side note, Happy Fathers Day Weekend to all of... (more)

A solo 70MAC leads a ballast train for Greenwood, SC through the C&O signal bridge at "Bobbs" in Thelma, Kentucky on a chilly, dreary spring afternoon.

The rear DPU on N313 passes the Elkhorn City station sign and the NE Elkhorn City siding, where the C&O and Clinchfield once met.

K819-24 passes under the severely leaning signal at FO Cabin, a couple of miles away from yarding their train at Shelby.

K819-24 passes under the C&O era cantilever signal guarding the double crossover at Johns Creek.

K819-24 passes through the bracket signals guarding the crossover at WE Pauley, passing through Pikeville on the Big Sandy Sub.

K819-24 comes through the Pikeville Cut Through, with a pair of SD70MAC's on point of an empty phosphate train.

E759-23 passes under the cantilever signal at the EE Pauley siding, headed towards Russell with an empty hopper train.

A tale as old as time itself.. Brice coal train N313-18 begins the assault on the steep grade at the start of the former Clinchfield Railroad out of Elkhorn City as the rear end distributed power ... (more)

Its 5am and Eastern Kentucky is waking up. The core of our galaxy is rising over the classic C&O cantilever that faithfully keeps its watch over the Big Sandy Subdivision, as it's done for over ha... (more)

The daily freight bound for Russell is winding along the Levisa Fork River about 5 miles north of Paintsville. The train is just thru Thelma and is working between SK Cabin and GC Cabin. This is e... (more)

A loaded 2x2 DP'd coal train out of Bailey Mine on the ex-Monongahela in Pennsylvania to a power plant in Terrell, NC, begins the next leg of the trip from Shelby to Kingsport. A crew cabbed out o... (more)