Like a rat streaking by as a light mist hits the rails.

In an unusual location on the KD Sub, a loaded coal drag heads south and passes the NS Clearfork Branch which immediately goes into a tunnel under the photographer. NS has trackage rights from jus... (more)

With light snow falling, N158 has just threaded the eye of Morley Tunnel and will cross the Clearfork in seconds.

As a lazy needed rain falls, a caboose in Norton awaits service up one of the many coal branches.

A coal drag rumbles out of Hickory Creek #1 tunnel, enroute to Georgia Power.

A freshly painted GP40-2 and mother slug awaiting the green signal while coal drag N158 heads north. After several inches of snow overnight, flurry storms still hung around throughout the day maki... (more)

As the evening light fades on the Elkhorn Grade, a DPU grain train is shoved over the Pokey at Powhatan.

Q541 with it's faded older power clears the south end of Lake City. The house or storage track on the right is comprised of rails made in 1922.

Coal drag N164 grinds up the grade, with sister engine 520 doing helper work on the rear. The move has just tripped the signals.

With the craggy rocks of Big Creek Gap in the background, G762 coasts silently out of the Cumberland Mountains. A few miles back at north Kilsyth the helper crew unhooked on the fly, sending them ... (more)

Chaska helper C212 trips the signal on #2 track at Oaks after shoving N253 over the mountain on this warm winter day.

Bringing up the rear of 97J, the caboose crosses over Wolf Creek just east of the old Addington McClure loadout. The worktrain is headed to Toptiki. For anyone monitoring the Pokey, "The King" sho... (more)

Red oak leaves, fresh oil stains from a recent standard cab, and wheat sprouting along the tracks. And yes, a shortage of soutbounds this frosty winter morning.

A venerable SD70 waits its turn for the second cut of coal at Turley. NS uses six engines from Sevier Yard and three back in each half, mainly for braking.

Yes, it has it's own motor and runs on the rail. Made by Johnson Industries out of Pikeville, KY, this coal auger sampling system takes less than two pounds out of each coal hopper and is the firs... (more)