CSX Trackage Rights coal train T090 heads East on the NS Appalachia District passing the famed Copper Creek trestle.

With just about every inch of space at ground level taken, I decided to scramble to the top of Copper Creek for a shot I've always wanted. Crawling in at 2mph, the 80th CSX Santa Train gleams in t... (more)

The 2018 Clinchfield Santa Train crosses the Copper Creek Bridge.

A loaded coal train for Brice soars over Copper Creek Trestle in golden evening light.

From our angle on the bank of the Copper Creek, we see CSX M652 cutting through the morning fog above as they roll across the Copper Creek Trestle in Speers Ferry, VA on the Kingsport Subdivision.... (more)

The 80th Clinchfield Santa Train....the shot most try for encompasses the entire bridge from above, but the viewing area below offers some unique views, too.

CSX train M653 charges southbound across the massive Copper Creek Trestle on the former Clinchfield mainline as it approaches its next recrew point of Kingsport, TN.

Copper Creek Crossing. CSX 1 (F40PH-2, ex-CSX 9998, exx-OHCR 280, née-AMTK 280, F40PHR, EMD, 4/1978) led "The Santa Train" consist over Copper Creek in Duffield, Virginia on Saturday, Nove... (more)

For a short while on Santa Train Saturday, Clinchport, Virginia may have been the most congested airspace in the United States. Screeching in at the last moment, I went high on the opposite hills... (more)

The 80th anniversary of the CSX Santa Train glides south across the Copper Creek Trestle in Clinchport, VA., running as P001-19

The last of the Fall colors shined brightly as the sun began to set at Copper Creek with CSX 391 Spirit of Dante doing the honors on the former Clinchfield line.

A flared SD70MAC leads a short Q693 over Copper Creek headed south along the former Clinchfield.

B627-16 crossing Copper Creek with a CN leader, as spring starts to finally come around.

The CSXT office car special rolled over the Big Sandy and Kingsport Subdivisions, stopping at a few locations for executives to tour facilities on the former Clinchfield. Just before touring King... (more)

Southbound CSX K429 crosses the Cooper Creek bridge with a CN Gevo in the lead as the last of the morning fog burns off in the Clinch River Valley