Easy downhill, this coal drag will be in Virginia in seconds in what essentially is a trip from the mountains to the sea with WV black diamonds.

Defect detector shed is of the old style, with most replaced a couple of years ago on the KD.

Iron horses and iron trusses. Pusher units wait to cross the Dry Fork and hook onto a southbound coal drag, pushing to the Clinch Valley.

After suffering electrical problems, mine run U14 out of Jamboree 5 crosses Peter Creek. U14 will wait for congestion on the Pokey to clear before crawling downhill another four miles to the main.

Tie her down.

A worktrain laying ribbon rail prepares to head toward Big Stone Gap, with work done for the day.

C212 has just gotten the green to return to Chaska, after having shoved Q541 over the mountain.

Typical of the tight terrain in Appalachian RR'ing, a faded CSX coal drag emerges from one of many rock cuts it must traverse below Jellico. Slide fences protect the crews from rocks across the tr... (more)

NS 8885 idling away, awaiting a fresh crew to finish loading the second half of the cut at National Coals Turley facility on the Jellico Branch.

In what will be a six to eight hour job, NS 76G prepares to take the first of two cuts to the Turley loadout operated by National Coal. The loadout consists of three frontend loaders scurrying abo... (more)

Time for a crew change along a remote part of the Pokey known as Cedar. With mine run U57 passing and Fall colors showing on the KY side of the Tug, the engines are idled while crews unload their ... (more)

With the rear of the train amongst the hills of Virginia and another state, autorack 25N has entered TN and is making it's way toward Knoxville. Thx. to Dustin Grizzle for the headsup and local gu... (more)

As coal drag N226 approaches in the distance, the helper crew hurries aboard to go north on #2, then south from single to main #1 and hook up for the shove over Duff Mountain. A broken rail below ... (more)

With nearly a foot of new snow on the ground, three motors take mtys back to the coalfields of Harlan County.

With a wide variety of power behind, CSX 9018 coasts downhill thru Habersham and off the Duff Mountain grade in late evening sunshine on a bitterly cold day.