Coal drag N560 roars out of the Hickory Creek #2 tunnel in the gorge on a beautiful late Feb. day. Engine number two was creating an awful racket with major problems

Frost is burned away in the Hickory Creek gorge as the early morning sun illuminates a power move of six engines heading north to Corbin Yard. MP C207. The engines were putting up a loud roar as t... (more)

Sun is limited in the confines of the Hickory Creek gorge, as Q539 bursts thru the darkness of Tunnel #1 and crosses the creek enroute to Chaska and the grade to Kilsyth.

A clean and crisply painted Q647 exits Hickory Creek Tunnel on a cold December morning on the KD, enroute to Knoxville and points south as it crosses the rolling Hickory Creek below.

CSX 7714, a leased unit, and another company engine blasting out of Hickory Creek Tunnel, preparing to ascend Duff Mountain.

CSX 4724 blasting out of Hickory Creek Tunnel with a nice clean paintjob on this blustery Spring day.

U258 lumbers thru the rugged Hickory Creek gorge and across one of many bridges as it approaches Duff Mountain. The coal drag will need plenty of help from the crew at Chaska to make it over the g... (more)

CSX K590 heads south thru rugged country out of Hickory Creek Tunnel #2, consisting of coal mtys. Unusual move as southbounds are almost always loaded.

CSX Q539 heads south, exiting the tunnel at Morley,TN on the KD subdivision

SB coal train exits a tunnel

CSX 760, a SD70MAC unit, pops out of Hickory Creek tunnel #2 as the morning sun warms the mountain valley.

CSX 42 pulling a coal drag blasts out of the lower Hickory Creek tunnel, headed for the hard climb over Duff mountain.

CSX 300 blasts out of the Morley tunnel, headed south for a push over Duff mountain with a load of coal cars.

Southbound manifest Q539 exits the old thru truss bidge at Morley.

Coal train southbound aproaching Chaska