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)

Loaded coal for the power plant at Terrell, NC, passes over the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River at Elkhorn City. In a 2x2 DP setup, 4 GE locomotives work these 108 loads down the Big Sandy and... (more)

Loaded coal for the power plant at Terrell, NC, passes over the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River at Elkhorn City. In a 2x2 DP setup, 4 GE locomotives work these 108 loads down the Big Sandy and... (more)

A day after being involved in a wreck due to a rock slide near Isom, CSX #61 sets on the siding at Blair Branch until another train or crew moves it away. This loco was still running at the time o... (more)

CSX 299 approaches M.P. 271 heading North along the Rockhouse Subdivision.

Another empty TILX train knocks down signal 2623 as it rolls through Ulvah Kentucky before crossing the Letcher and Perry County lines. This was a fantastic and warm spring day ta boot.

A sucker hole of sunshine opens up just in time for CSX ethanol train K447 rolling south through the backyards of Rockholds,KY.

Empty TILX train crosses the old C&O viaduct in Hall, Kentucky on this warm March day.

Oddballs on Clinchfield's EMD-dominated roster, the U36Cs were disliked enough that a trade with SCL for a like number of SD45s was arranged. I never thought CRR's gray and yellow looked as good ... (more)

CSX SD40-2 #8357 leads loaded ethanol train K447 out of the yard at Corbin beginning its trip south on the KD Sub.

H779, the Russell to Huntington and return "Peddler", passes the Ashland Amtrak platform on their way to Huntington.

A southbound empty coal train bound for McClure Mine passes thru Ivel on the Big Sandy. The train is working between Russell and Shelby. Unfortunately at Shelby the train would park and not run ti... (more)

A YN2 Dash 8 and CP ES44AC lead empty ethanol train K446 across Pool Point bridge and a murky Russell Fork, on the North End of the former Clinchfield.

An empty coal train destined for Hazard passes through the curved Rockhouse Creek tunnel on former L&N track. The L&N built this section of track from Hazard out towards Deane, called the Rockho... (more)