Getting an over/under shot anywhere is a tough task in itself but in the coalfields, its almost impossible. At Speers Ferry, VA, the NS Appalachia District (bottom) and the CSXT Kingsport Subdivis... (more)

The silence and solitude of night in rural Appalachia is briefly disrupted as 79K exits the west portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, VA on May 22nd, 2019. Minutes later, the sounds of a mounta... (more)

A friend and myself ventured out the morning of February 3rd, 2017 with the goal of catching the once a week Loyall to Eastman coal train on the ex L&N Cumberland Valley. After arriving at Hagans ... (more)

The springtime morning air is cool, but crisp in Salisbury, North Carolina as Roanoke's best, the J-Class 611, slowly eases out of town. With a train full of passengers, the 611 put on a once-in-a... (more)

The 75th running of the Clinchfield Santa Train crosses the Russell Fork River as it approaches the third stop of the morning at Toms Bottom with Clinchfield 800 doing the honors. Thank you to CSX... (more)

Paralleling Riverview Road just North of Akron, Nickel Plate Road 765 charges through the rural country side during the final weekend of trips at the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.

Two friends and myself arrived early at Blue Ridge Saturday morning figuring we would be one of the first people there. Much to our surprise, they were already 30-40 people scattered in several pl... (more)

In an absolute down pour, N&W 611 eases into Danville on its way home to the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Sometime in September, 611 will again return to the North Carolina Museum of Transpo... (more)

In early morning sunlight, train no. U45 enters the Clinch Valley main running long hood forward at Coeburn, Va. The train has just loaded at Alpha's Toms Creek Prep Plant and will run to Carbo wh... (more)

A good place to live and, at the moment, a good place to be. After the final passengers deboarded the train, Southern 4501 eases across State Street (the street is split down the middle between Vi... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage unit eases over US-58 Alternate at St. Paul, Virginia. The Virginian Railway was located in Virginia and West Virginia where it mainly hauled coal from the co... (more)

With dynamics howling and brake smoke rising, U45 brings 105 loads of Southwest Virginia's finest coal across the massive Big Lawson Trestle located just east of Coeburn, VA on the NS Clinch Valle... (more)

After the first ever Railroad Day held at Natural tunnel State Park, the Virginian heritage unit travels back to Frisco, TN passing through the truss bridge across the Clinch River at Clinchport, ... (more)

The skillful engineer of K627 has the train under control as it drops through the control point at Flanagan, KY on the hill between Winchester and the Kentucky River at Ford. The Richmond Hill pus... (more)

Shortly after 7 a.m in the small city of Thomasville, North Carolina, the early Monday morning quietness is briefly disturbed as N&W 611 thunders through, heading home for Roanoke. The J traveled ... (more)