With two of three engines down, this southbound coal drag will need more than a little help from the shack at Morley and the helper crew.

A clean and crisply painted Q647 exits Hickory Creek Tunnel on a cold December morning on the KD, enroute to Knoxville and points south as it crosses the rolling Hickory Creek below.

With three engines today, grain train G780 won't need the Chaska helpers service on the journey south. In looking at the rock bluffs, one has to marvel at the difficulty in 1904 of blasting the RO... (more)

About the only move other than coal requiring a shove over the hill is a grain train, as G762 and two other engines smoke away on the grind up the grade. C212 out of Chaska is hard on the rear.

Ancient CPLs stand sentinel just west of Davy, awaiting a green.

Slowly easing onto the Buchanan Branch, a loaded coal drag passes the wye across the Tug Fork and stores the 111 loaded coal Top Gons in the siding. This was the site of a derailment a week ago, i... (more)

Finding that one spot of sunlight, coal drag N220 picks up speed for what lies ahead, Duff Mountain.

A venerable GP on worktrain 95W surveys the state line at Flat Top, once a stopping spot for all coal heading east on the Pokey. Most coal now continues to Bluefield Yard, though a few coal trains... (more)

Warranty expiration 11/1/01 and still doing heavy shoving work on the coal grades. From the looks of the stains, one of the crew must be a tobacco chewer.

Mine run U35 rolls toward Auville Yard down the Dry Fork Branch on a hot and humid day. Space is limited along this rugged and remote stretch of the Pokey with an office and storage track, along w... (more)

After the middle pusher unit went down, crews stop the shove to Clarks Gap on a Hill Run to bring the power back up. Shove stopped between two tunnels due to the exhaust.

SD50 6522, one of only twenty on the NS roster, makes a backup move into Norton Yard on the east end on this snowy cold morning.

The morning sun has just hit the Dry Fork valley as 132 pound rail manufactured at the Lackawanna mill rusts away. Leading to the Amonate Consol prep plant, the rail will soon see a minerun.

Representative of the Pokey, bad order coal cars and a caboose sit at Cedar on the center siding. Cabs are still used along this stretch on mine runs, which consist of long backup moves up the bra... (more)

It's Fall time on the Pokey. A light pusher set glides along wet rails, a slide detector fence, and a sea of colors on the Pokey, enroute to a special assignment.