This is an "Extra South" out of Dante on the Clinchfield holding at a Stop signal at the North End of Boody, VA---April 22, 1980. I seem to recall this was a cab hop (three units and a caboose), a... (more)

This is an Extra North (as CRR would call 'em) at St. Paul, VA in November 1980. There's one each of the railroad's paint schemes---Family Lines, black, and gray and yellow. I can't recall, but I ... (more)

I spent one afternoon on the south end of the Clinchfield, and managed to catch two road trains. Along with a northbound from Bostic, NC, there was this northbound that originated in Spartanburg, ... (more)

A northbound Clinchfield freight originating in Bostic, NC rolls past the lumber mill in Logan.

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)