Faded SD60 idles away while awaiting four northbounds at Oaks, TN before battling Duff Mountain grade.

Two hundred and nine miles from Cincy, as the milepost states amongst a mountain of CSX generated garbage. Guess in these remote places, out of sight, out of mind rings true!

Bens Creek minerun U98 backs up the Gilbert Branch off the Pokey main. The Tug Fork valley is a sea of colors on this warm Fall day.

Fixing to make the connection, a brakeman rides 77G back as he talks the engineer thru the move.

On a day so humid you could cut the air, worktrain 97J ambles toward Toptiki to drop off a clamshell, then spend the rest of the day loading ties. Slidefence is typical of the Pokey.

In a never ending pattern on the Dry Fork Branch, 731 with mtys prepares to head west to Auville Yard as loaded coal gons pass at Indian #3. On this humid evening the Dry Fork had nonstop action f... (more)

After shoviing U356 over Duff Mountain, C212 helper leans into the curve at Habersham enroute to another coal shove. A very busy section on the KD with two northbounds and four southbounds in a sh... (more)

NS 9200 makes a backward move from Glen Alum Tunnel to the Gilbert Branch at Wharncliffe, preparing to load at Bens Creek. Towering bluffs, rock detector fences, and old style signals are the scen... (more)

With the lead motor almost out of fuel and headed east while loaded, U85 awaits a power swap with U86 coming up the hill from Matoaka.

With a colossal coal silo looming overhead, a sparkling GE ES40DC goes about work in the coalfields of Tennessee.

NS 18M exits the east portal of the Glen Alum tunnel, soon slated for major overhead clearance work.

Judging from the looks of the brakewheel, leathered hands have set the brake on this caboose thousands of times. Almost forgotten, they still are in service on the many branches around St. Charles... (more)

Framed by the NW signal tower that is surely destined for replacement, minerun U24 idles away before heading to the loadout for a long evening.

Q541 mixed freight with the usual hodgepodge of older power rambles out of Morley Tunnel on the KD. After a meet at the bottom of the mountain, there will be four northbounders heading by.

Coal drag U141 leans into the curve at Habersham on the Duff Mountain grade as the helper does service 108 cars back.