A mine run out of Hazard works mtys up the Lotts Creek Branch on its way to load at Sigmon and is passing the long abandoned Ajax Tipple in a lite snow shower.
7632-7598-7575 have N266 (Hignite-Stilesboro) clipping along through Walsend Yard on the CV Sub. The train will soon be creeping along at a breakneck 10 mph down the Harbell Branch to Middlesboro... (more)
U15 shoves mty hoppers across the Tug Fork and into Kentucky. The train will back all the way up the Delorme Branch to the big Sunnyridge mine at Coleman, KY.
Another customer waits for service inside HLS.
A single GE brings a Newport News bound train out of Shelby Yard and heads down the Big Sandy Subdivision. The train was loaded the night before down on the old Clinchfield's Nora Branch at Neece... (more)
A CSX ballast sweeper works the No.1 KD main south of Corbin near Woodbine. The MOW crews had the entire subdivision tied up all afternoon.
EB loads pass the recently renovated C&O depot at Alderson, WV.
A mix of EMD and GE 4-axles hustle loads for Kentucky Utilities north up the KY at Farriston past the recently idled Interstate Coal Company loadout. One of my first B&W shots.
17M speeds down the mountain across Elkhorn Creek and through Eckman Yard with power to spare. Today's power consist of NS 8551, 6631, 6643, 8672 and 8986.
Power waits on coal business to develop on RJC's newest shortline, the former C&O Dawkins Subdivision in EKY.
CSX C30-7 7031 is in for major service at the Russell Shops.
A Pike 29 Shifter slides past the idled Esco Loadout on the SV&E Subdivision.
My favorite beast, the L&N U30C. They are missed........
Showing she still has what it takes in today's world of AC traction units, a former N&W SD40-2 hustles over 100 mty across Davis Branch on the way to the big yard at Williamson. These are former ... (more)
NS 822 explodes out of Roderfield Tunnel and across the Tug Fork with 110 loads and a three unit helper set shoving on the rear.
