Two eastbounds wait at the east end of Shelby Yard on this snowy Saturday.

Old C&O cantilever style signal showing red is holding this coal drag at Ford's Branch.

Stranger in a strange land, LMSX 7921 leads the CSX Grain Express through Ford's Branch on its way to Shelby Yard.

C&O engineer Lon Venters is at the controls of No. 97 as it rumbles through Pikeville in the early morning on this overcast day. On the right is Circle C Coal Company's Sowards tipple.

This is the caboose of the West Shifter that comes out of Shelby Ky to work the town of Pikeville and tipples along the way.

Westbound work train just south of the town of Pikeville. Notice the new Cut in the mountain in the background. Within a year this track will be abandon and the railroad plus a highway and a rive... (more)

After a restart, CSX 7605 and the Family Lines Grain Train head into Shelby under the old C&O cantilever signal tower at Ford's Branch.

North of Pikeville, KY

64S heads through the Pikeville Cut-Thru paralleling the Levisa River that was diverted to spare the City of Pikeville from flooding.

In the City That Moves Mountains, 64S with MTY's roars thru the Pikeville Cut-Thru, where the Town of Pikeville diverted the Levisa River and relocated the C&O RR.

Westbound empties heading for another load of eastern Kentucky coal follow the Levisa Fork River under a shroud of early morning fog.

Brand new "Ace", CSX 4834 sits idle in the siding at Ford's Branch near West End of Shelby Yard pointing EB. This is my first sighting of the new power.

Mty hoppers roll eastbound down the Big Sandy mainline at Pikeville, Ky. The power is just entering the unique Pikeville Cut Through which redirected the Levisa Fork and Big Sandy Subdivision som... (more)

CSX hopper train awaits loading deep in the Appalachian Mountains