Cumberland bound manifest Q316-24 dashes through Ashland after fixing an EOT issue leaving Russell, passing PRLX 61 and MMC 863 sitting quietly on the industrial track at Mansbach Metal Company as... (more)

216 empty hopper cars and four motors dash through the railroad town of Ashland, passing by the once busy freight depot at 15th Street enroute to Russell Yard for a crew change and fuel. Decades ... (more)

With a jaunty bell and my favorite CSX paint job this former Seaboard unit heading an eastbound train.

With cutter wheels grinding away at the head of the rails on #1 track, the Loram Railgrinder works it's way west towards Russell for a night run down the Cincinnati & Northern Subdivisions. In a ... (more)

Horizon unlevel..or train unlevel?

In the final mile of the journey from Big Run Landfill to the junction at NC Cabin on the ex-C&O Lexington Subdivision, the pusher of Y206-18 eases... (more)

The pusher of the Lexington Branch trash train has crested the slight grade west of Ashland and is now ducking into the modified Ashland tunnel, less than a mile from the junction with the Kanawha... (more)

Silent night

Performing their usual tri-weekly ritual, the westbound Cardinal rolls into the once-bustling railroad city of Ashland. Typically, a few passengers will disembark or cl... (more)

Russell to Richmond manifest Q302-04 accelerates through Ashland on a frigid December evening, heading for their first stop at South Charleston Yard in the capitol city of West Virginia.

With 6,800 horsepower and three gondolas from Kentucky Electric Steel, the only other customer on the remnants of the former C&O Lexington Subdivision, local Y156-15 waits for their turn to "... (more)

Passing the last all-C&O interlocking between Russell and Montgomery, an eastbound grain train begins their trek east across the Kanawha Subdivision on a cloudy July morning.

Plagued with electrical problems, two generations of General Electric AC-current locomotives sit tied down on the #2 main at Clyffeside, waiting for a member of CSX mechanical to show up and get t... (more)

A short-on-time Q317-27 recrew drags 8800 feet of Cumberland freight past the Ashland Amtrak platform with an HLCX SD40-2 and ex-Conrail SD60I for power.

A view from the pedestrian bridge at 22nd Street offers a birds-eye view of the old Ashland, KY 34th Street Yard, now leased to AK Steel to store coke cars; and to Mansbach to store cars destined ... (more)

A CSX local heads eastbound through Ashland, KY on a beautiful cold afternoon.

CSX coal train N928-18 with loaded GGPX hoppers heads west towards Russell, KY passing the former 34th Street Yard in Ashland, now used by AK Steel as a staging yard for coke hoppers and by Progre... (more)