CSX train T090 has just finished making its move over Hagans Switchback and is back on the move east along the Cumberland Valley Sub towards Big Stone Gap,VA.
Luck would have it that the call time got pushed back at Loyall on this W584 stone train from Mount Vernon, KY, to Brice, NC, A 15:00 call time would get us last light at the switchbacks. What a s... (more)
A CSX coal train has reached the top of the Hagans Switchback and proceeds toward Big Stone Gap.
After successfully negotiating the only remaining switchback on any Class 1 railroad, the pushers on T795 shove the train into Hagans Tunnel.
Southbound coal train is backing up the switchback where it will meet a northbound on the old main (since removed).
Now lined for the main, this northbound is doing a little waiting before pulling forward to put his train back together. All we hear is the low speed idle turbo whine and the cicadas buzzing in t... (more)
With a rebuild already working for its fourth owner this northbound hopper train is shoving the front of its train into the second tail track to clear the switch before heading thru Hagans Tunnel.... (more)
A loaded coal train has stopped at the switch on the tail track. Here the lead units would take part of the train into the spur while the pushers shove the remaining part into the train track to ... (more)
