Two fresh out of the box Tier-4's are on the point of a west-bound loaded coal train. The train is passing the old Appalachia passenger station that served the Southern Railway and L&N. Part of th... (more)

A pair of light engines slide past the signal at Nora as they are on their journey from Dante to McClure to pick up a loaded coal train.

Two six-motor GE's have 110 empty grain cars behind them as they are about to get on CSX trackage and run North on the Cumberland Valley to Corbin, Kentucky. These cars have just came out of stora... (more)

Winter is coming and so is the fall harvest. A whole string of covered hoppers have been pulled out of storage from one of the sidings on the Kingsport Sub. (The old Clinchfield route that runs fr... (more)

Two pumpkins take on the Rat Hole as they are making their trip towards Chattanooga with several steel slab cars behind them.

The sound of big GE's fill the air as an empty auto-rack train blasts around the curve and into the small community of Habersham.

The pushers of a loaded coal train are beginning their backwards descent towards Hagans Switchback from Hubbard Springs.

A GE 6-motor locomotive (ES40DC) roars above a lily filled pond as it makes it's way down the Appalachia Division at second class railway track speed.

NS 165 flies across the BL line as they are westbound and down. Just shortly after, a loaded Q44 coal train will pass under, bound for Asheville, NC.

A rare sight. After working the only mainline switchback in America, two former Conrail Dash 8-40CW's scream as they get put into notch-7 and then 8, in order to get 15,000 + tons of coal movin... (more)

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit passes a very fitting American flag while on it's journey into the Appalachian mountains on Independence day, 2016. Happy 4th of July everyone.

F892 makes a run by the Elkhorn City signal while on their way with 101 loads from McClure for Shelby.

Heavy rains pour down as a Dash-8 rounds the curve at Watauga.

NS 386 looks through Harper tunnel as they are making their way down to the Big Stone Gap signal.

An NS coal train bound for Eastman Chemical Company crosses the Holston River Bridge on the old Clinchfield, but now CSX Kingsport Subdivision into Kingsport, TN.