A CSX coal drag heads across the impressive Copper Creek Viaduct amidst the fall colors and a gorgeous blue sky in early November. In the foreground, the state of Virginia proudly advertises its r... (more)

While the Clinch Mountains try and hang on to what little fall colors are left. The friendly crew bring the CSX Santa Train to a crawl almost stopping on the Copper Creek viaduct, for all the rail... (more)

CSX coal on Copper Creek Viaduct

The Santa Train crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct as it’s continues south to Kingsport.

The 66th annual Santa Train, P90522, slowly crawls across CSX's Copper Creek Viaduct while Norfolk Southern's former Southern Railway trackage cuts and winds it's way through the hillside below.

On the last leg of its trip the 2008 Santa Train passes over the famed Copper Creek viaduct on its way to Kermit, Waycross and then finally the end of its 110 mile trek in Kingsport.

A pair of NS GEs lead a northbound empty EnviroStone scrubber stone train across CSX's Copper Creek Viaduct utilizing trackage rights between Frisco, TN and St. Paul, VA.

CSX loaded coal train N414 southbound crossing Copper Creek Viaduct with the Clinch River in the foreground.

As the DPU begins to be more and more common on NS trains that cross over CSX's Kingsport Sub, the chance for that one last shot in the evening light also becomes more common. What is not very co... (more)

As the northbound NS empty hopper train flys overhead via CSX's Kingsport Sub, a set of CSX pushers drifts downgrade westbound on the NS Appalachia District, having just shoved their train up the ... (more)

Coal loads from one of the mines on the former L&N are seen here with the 237 pusher operating under trackage rights. Operating on former Southern rails this train is enroute to home rails to the... (more)

This extra south is crossing one of the most recognizable landmarks on the former CRR. Copper Creek Viaduct. With tons of Appalachian coal this SB is in Run 8 as it muscles on towards the next sum... (more)

A pair of CSX GEs lead loaded trackage rights coal train U382 eastbound across NS's Copper Creek Viaduct.

A two and a half hour wait is rewarded with CSX's newest locomotive on the point of a southbound loaded coal train gliding across Copper Creek in the evening light. I think it was worth the minor... (more)

The early morning fog lingers in the Clinch River Valley as a northbound CSX empty coal train rumbles across the Copper Creek Viaduct on its trek to the coal mines of Eastern Kentucky.