The 1992 Clinchfield Santa Train deadhead move is getting underway behind steam power, for a run down to Elkhorn City, and eventually Kingsport. I hope that the Challenger can someday again pull ... (more)

Railfans are getting their shots as the "Clinchfield 676" (UP 3985) has changed crews and is getting underway on ex-Clinchfield rails at the end of the old C&O. The occasion was the 50th... (more)

A get together of old iron horses at Ravena, Kentucky.

A get together of old iron horses at Ravena, Kentucky.

Reportedly ex-MP and considering the replacement headlight with no number boards I would guess originally C&EI. Don't even know where I got the road name from. I found the thing by accident.

These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)

We come for the trains...and stay for the people! "BellRail 1-24" as I call it, or officially known as the "Party Like It's 1979 Diesel Photo Event" at the Kentucky Steam Herit... (more)

L&N/Family Lines System C30-7 #7067, which has been cosmetically restored is seen sitting alongside Norfolk & Western (former NS) SD40-2 #6162 during a nighttime photoshoot at Kentucky Steam Herit... (more)

L&N/Family Lines System C30-7 #7067, which has been cosmetically restored is seen sitting alongside Norfolk & Western (former NS) SD40-2 #6162 at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation in Ravenna, KY... (more)

A lone AC4400 is on the rear of a loaded GALX coal train as it rolls over the massive Arnold Fork Viaduct in Knott County, Kentucky. It's been a while since I can recall a GALX train in these part... (more)

Nothing like seeing the sight of "Kentucky Black Gold" back out and about on the rails now days!!

Freshly outshopped from the rebuild program at CSX's Huntington Heavy Repair Shops, CSX SD70MACe 4714 is on the point of manifest freight M692 as it crosses the Russell Fork River on the bridge at... (more)

While the rapidly setting sun is still touching the tops of the hills, darkness has already settled in the valley at Chapman, Kentucky as CSX ethanol train B651 rolls south past the C&O signal at ... (more)

A coal drag for the Carolinas crosses the Russell Fork in Elkhorn City, Kentucky.

The local out of Winchester drops down to Corbin in a heavy rain with a couple geeps for power.