Worktrain FO40 idles and belches smoke as it waits for #2 track to clear at Oaks, TN. This engine has obviously led a hard life!

Looking huge and imposing, the not often seen Maybeury signals stand guard. They are not long for this world and living on borrowed time after standing guard since the early 50's. They were erecte... (more)

Showing the ravages of time since being built in '89, CSX 7510 idles away at the junction of the Clearfork Branch and the KD main. The unit train was loaded at Kopper Glo the previous day.

With the sun quickly fading behind Turley Mountain, NS 76G works on the first cut of coal hoppers as power awaits the second cut at the National Coal loadout.

With heavy equipment from the Heartland Corridor project parked about, coal drag S0N crawls west out of Vaughn Tunnel. Work has progressed inside with the roof being raised and notched.

Worktrain W058 blasts out of Vasper tunnel on the KD Sub. The south portal is in light less than a couple of hours a day.

A CSX quality car, right. Most of these decrepit hoppers have to stop at the loadout while company employees patch and use shingles and plastic bags to clog the holes. Otherwise they'd be mty befo... (more)

Dwarfed by a huge bluff of Cumberland Plateau sandstone, grain train G796 blasts out of Hickory Creek #2 tunnel. The crew has already called for the helper as it nears Duff Mountain.

The daily 18M, hauling the mail one could say. rushes east out of Glen Alum tunnel. Work is due to begin this Fall on the widening project for Glen Alum.

As mtys head toward Auville Yard and the plentiful coal branches, grain train 52V stretches around the corner. The move will require a pusher set to make it up Elkhorn Grade today.

CPLs are still up on the Wolf Creek Branch of the Pocahontas as a worktrain with clamshell approaches the sidings at the Toptiki coal loadout. At times the coalfields can be sweltering, even in th... (more)

An autorack flies east into Elkhorn Tunnel, nearly a mile long and atop one of the longest grades east of the Rockies.

Climbing out of the fog and rain, coal drag N296 has one last grade to ascend before dropping out of the Cumberland Mountains into the Tennessee ridge and valley system. The required helper is sti... (more)

With one of the SDs cutting out, coal drag N294 does it's dangest to clear Chaska at the tailend, allowing the helper engine to go north on the main, then come south to hook up for the shove over ... (more)

With the sideview mirror turned down, a motor for NS 77G idles away while working on a branch coal run.