Faded SD60 idles away while awaiting four northbounds at Oaks, TN before battling Duff Mountain grade.

Worktrain FO40 idles and belches smoke as it waits for #2 track to clear at Oaks, TN. This engine has obviously led a hard life!

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)

Watseka Farmers & Grain 7210, an ex-LTV Mining Alco, idles away beside the mammoth grain elevator at Pittwood, IL.

With an Alco RS-11 in the background awaiting the weeks duty, UP 9749 roars by strands of grain in the breadbasket of the country.

Leaning precariously, a grain elevator switcher sits just off the main awaiting Monday morning and work.

With the sun quickly fading behind Turley Mountain, NS 76G works on the first cut of coal hoppers as power awaits the second cut at the National Coal loadout.

In what will be a six to eight hour job, NS 76G prepares to take the first of two cuts to the Turley loadout operated by National Coal. The loadout consists of three frontend loaders scurrying abo... (more)

On a cold and rainy January day, mine run SU24 crawls out of Glen Alum tunnel with just one motor. Having just come off the Gilbert Branch, the loads will be set off at Beech Creek before heading ... (more)

In an odd scene, hoppers apparently involved in a derailment are trucked away from the old Petercave Coal yard in Martin County, KY on the Wolfcreek Branch of the Pokey. Just out of the pic to the... (more)

97J rolls down the line toward the Pokey main and Panco Siding, where it'll do some ditch work with a track hoe. Not far behind is U07 coming off the Marrowbone Spur.

Spring is in the air at the old Beartown prep plant location on the Dry Fork as redbuds put out their color. MOW action is on the siding as the main to the left is cleared to run coal southward ou... (more)

In a scene quickly disappearing from the Pokey landscape and WV, a signal on the Dry Fork Branch stands sentinel a little over 32 miles from Iaeger and Auville Yard.

Watco power sits on the NCRR, just off the NS main at Oneida on this bright winter day. The 42 mile line runs from Oneida to the National Coal prep plant at Devonia, TN.

Chaska helper C212 trips the signal on #2 track at Oaks after shoving N253 over the mountain on this warm winter day.