With a loaded coal drag heading south, the helper engine idles away on the number two track with a bad order coal hopper on the house track.

Climbing out of the fog and rain, coal drag N296 has one last grade to ascend before dropping out of the Cumberland Mountains into the Tennessee ridge and valley system. The required helper is sti... (more)

A coal drag led by EMD power passes a bad order loaded coal hopper on the house track at Chaska. The helper, which will be required for the grade, has already headed north to hook to the tailend.

A long string of mtys headed to Williamson Yard lights up the Glen Alum tunnel. Glen Alum on the Pokey is a very remote place and difficult to find and fan, with many hazards along the way.

A three engine pusher set prepares to head west out of Bluefield yard with several old dilapidated engines.

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

A faded and sun bleached Dash 8 begins the assault on Duff Grade with plenty of leased and older power. The coaling tower is left over from the steam days on the old L & N.

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.

With storm clouds brewing on the golden colored hills behind, the Chaska hill helper refuels at South Kilsyth. The crew just finished shoving a coal drag over the grade and will await a hirail bef... (more)

An autorack heads east behind the 98J worktrain at Devon, where one can always find an old GP38 sitting most evenings.

In an elevated fourteen degree curve on the Pokey, one of the most severe, a coal run dashes toward Bluefield. The track to the right goes to the Buchanan Branch and wye, just across the river. Hi... (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.

Still looking new in a recent paintjob, GP38 4122 sits on the Devon storage track awaiting another days job.

Contemplating work, a crew prepares to bring mtys down to the prep plant at Hull.

With rain holding the smoke down low and the crew looking on, pusher set J52 crosses from Main 2 to Main 1, then will back up to assist the stalled 148 over the Elkhorn Grade. Fall is in the air o... (more)