Clinchfield grain empties pass under the 19th Street cantilevers in downtown Ashland. By the end of the upcoming work week, these relics will be sitting in the adjacent scrap yard with their repla... (more)

CSX H706, the Lexington IT job idles at Milepost 0.4, just east of NC Cabin. The train will receive a fresh recrew on Monday and will proceed to the landfill, currently the only customer on the on... (more)

Mansbach Metal Co. 86 basks in the afternoon sun on the Mansbach grounds in Ashland, KY.

Briefly halting near a switch, AK 1223 switches a cut of modified flat cars in the AK yard at Ashland.

With AK Steel's announcement of their closure of the Coke Plant later this year, moves like this will become increasingly rare before eventually coming to an end. Here, westbound AK 1221 pulls a s... (more)

A westbound manifest illuminates s a cut of cars at the Mansbach Scrap Yard as it approaches the 19th Street interlocking. The C&O cantilevers at this location are on borrowed time with their repl... (more)

TILX RDL hoppers sit along the ROW after a derailment in Ashland, KY the week before. Over 22 cars derailed total.

An eastbound Russell-Huntington local passes under a C&O signal bridge at Ashland, soon to be removed from service.

A CSXT coal car gets turned on the rotary dump that feeds the coke ovens at AK Steel, Ashland Works.

CSXT GRMS-1 highballs through downtown Ashland east along the Kanawha Subdivision.

Caught this loaded westbound coal train running behind downtown Ashland with ex Chessie 6142 - CSX (ex B&O) 6060 - WofA 6795 with 164 hoppers and caboose 903128.

A C&O to Clinchfield bypass train sits tied down in Catlettsburg, KY. Soon, the engines will cut away and run around the train before continuing east down CSX's Big Sandy Subdivision and eventuall... (more)

Pacing CSXT 107 west through Ashland at 1/13.

CSX's only active remaining SD40 straight leads a loaded ballast train eastbound by the the 42nd Street C&O Signal Bridge in downtown Ashland. While this engine certainly isn't as rare as it was w... (more)

Eastbound GRMS-1 knocks down the three track signal bridge at CA 515.5 as it makes it's annual test of the Kanawha mainline.