With loaded coal cars off the Delorme trailing behind in the steep elevated curve, minerun U14 prepares to get underway again. Spring has just started to touch the narrow Tug Fork valley on this l... (more)

Passing a greaser along the curvy stretch thru Big Four, NS 185 heads west on a slow order.

Looking like a railhead, helper unit 520 awaits a southbound coal drag as Q540 passes by at Chaska.

A total of seven motors make their way toward Williamson after crossing over Fourmile Creek. It's easy to get turned around in the hills and hollows of WV along this section of terrain.

Push/Pull. It's all in the details on an ancient battle scarred Top Gon.

Q541 is seconds away from entering Vasper Tunnel after meeting a northbound N100 at South Jacksboro.

N294 led by the "Spirit of the Clinchfield" pulls against the grade as it makes its way up Duff Mountain. The engines will stall in seconds and require the helper traveling under the tower to cont... (more)

Work train picking up ties and trees has just cleared Ought-One on Main 1 and will head to Glen Alum after traffic gets by. It is obvious that Main 1 is used for grain trains heading east.

With dynamics howling, mty coal drag N158 comes downhill off Duff Mountain in a freshly fallen snow. With two northbounds behind and one southbound ahead, it's a busy day on the KD.

Smoking thru an S curve on a humid day, worktrain 97J heads toward McClure after passing Peter Cave on the Wolf Creek Branch of the Pokey. Note the crew using Mother Natures AC.

Mandatory power in the coalfields, CSX 452 awaits service up one of the many branchlines surrounding Logan.

An autorack train roars out of Hickory Creek #2 tunnel deep in the gorge, soon to start the ascent of Duff Mountain. Autoracks normally don't require the helper to get up and over the grade.

Along the sweeping curve at Ought-One on the Pocahontas main, a coal drag makes its way toward Williamson. The colorful ridge is on the other side of the Tug Fork in Kentucky, with the signals bei... (more)

NS 57N speeds by a coal train being built just below Eckman Yard.

U22 putting together a string of loaded coal cars between Cucumber and Newhall, WV on the Jacobs Fork of the Dry Fork. Swags and dips are the norm for branch rail conditions in the coalfields of A... (more)