With the rocky peaks of Cumberland Mountain and Big Creek Gap looming to the rear, U150 coasts downhill to Lafollette and flat country.

Remarks: In an elevated fourteen degree curve along the Pokey, a pusher set prepares to hook onto a minerun just around the corner. The signals in the background control the Buchanan Branch just t... (more)

Dwarfed by the walls of the Hickory Creek gorge, a loaded coal drag makes its way to daylight and across the creek. With the grade already slowing momentum, this one will need a helper across Duff... (more)

Backing up to clear the main, 97J and a friendly brakeman prepares to cross the defect detector on the way to Glen Alum. Common to find a caboose on the Pokey most any day.

Worktrain 97J and caboose on the Pokey main. The clam bucket is used for everything from cut brush to ties to cleaning out the ditches along the ROW.

The helper crew glides north on #2 track as a loaded coal drag attempts to clear the north end of Chaska, straiing for every last yard. The helper will go from #2 to main, then move south on #1 to... (more)

Switch signal lock, thrown tens of thousands of times in the coalfields of Appalachia.

Contemplating work, a crew prepares to bring mtys down to the prep plant at Hull.

The Norfolk & Western Illinois passenger car, with a brakeman rushing toward the grade crossing to flag traffic. The F units were really working, switching passenger cars around.

A string of Top Gons exits the Glen Alum tunnel on the way to a mine run up one of the many branches along this remote section. The face of the tunnel will soon be changing with the coming of the ... (more)

What a long strange trip it's been. Crewmember disembarks at Oakdale Yard after a journey south on the Rathole. Within minutes a fresh crew will pull out, wasting no time on this busy stretch of N... (more)

Coal drag N253 struggles up the grade on #1 track at Oaks as MOW equipment clears on #2. A helper is shoving on the end on this bright winter evening. Tech help goes to my daughter Laurel.

NS coal drag awaits a fresh crew at Lomax, below War WV as mtys return northbound on the Dry Fork. Spring is in the air on this busy day on the Dry with redbuds just beginning to show their color.

Knocking down the signal, coal drag U466 leaves Lake City, formerly known as Coal Creek. I've yet to get used to the paint on these MACs.

With a venerable B36-7 sitting on the siding, mty coal drag N259 prepares to make the grade thru Big Creek Gap on the KD.