In the early evening hours of a late May day, a Clinchfield freight rolls north outside of Glenwood, NC. The three locomotives (two SD40's and an SD40-2) display the three paint schemes used by th... (more)

Overview Clinchfield engine facility Erwin

Hand Off at the "Horn": On the morning of October 13, 1980, I was able to reach Elkhorn City, KY in time to see the a.m. hand off of overnight hotshot number 97 from the Clinchfield to t... (more)

Clinchfield RR power at Dante, VA || August 1978

I'm always going through old slides and negatives from 55 years or more of railroad photography. This is an old Ektachrome slide that needed a lot of PS clean-up---but it's not too bad. This scene... (more)

After an all-day round trip from Erwin to St. Paul, VA, Clinchfield's famed "One Spot" has been turned on the wye, and is now being hostled north again. After reaching the mouth of the y... (more)

L&N Extra CRR 3614 North is waiting for the head brakeman to get back to the head end before continuing to Loyall, KY with an empty hopper train. The train has just doubled the switchback at Hagan... (more)

The L&N and Clinchfield had just started pooling CRR power between Loyall and Erwin for certain unit coal trains when I caught this quartet of Clinchfield SDs ready to leave Loyall with a train. T... (more)

A two-car, steam-only run of Clinchfield Ten-Wheeler number 1 works upgrade at the Lakecrest road crossing in Colonial Heights. This was shot from the US 23 (today, Route 36) bridge, which used to... (more)

Built as #423 in August of 1882 for the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central RR, the "One Spot" did not make it into the hands of the Clinchfield Railroad until 1900. It did so by way of it's pred... (more)

Clinchfield F7A 823 has pulled its last tonnage, and has been rolled out to pasture behind the backshop at Erwin, TN. The engine was acquired from the CRR’s co-owner L&N and rebuilt at SCL’s Waycr... (more)

The Clinchfield was very accommodating to our local NRHS chapter during the ‘70s, when general manager Tom Moore’s excursion program was in full swing. Our group chartered several “steam-only” tri... (more)

Although CSX Corporation is now in place, out on the property, not much has changed---yet. At St. Paul, VA, a northbound on the Clinchfield--cab lite--rolls around the curve and toward the crossin... (more)

If you've taken photos as long as I have, I'm sure you've had some "down" periods when you didn't get out quite so much, and didn't pursue the hobby as vigorously. It can be attributed t... (more)

It's almost dark as a manifest pulls into the yard at Elkhorn City. If your first exposure to the Clinchfield was at Elkhorn City, you might not believe it was a very modern, efficient railroad. ... (more)