Clinchfield SW7 No. 353 was taking a break between shifts at Erwin, TN on May 22, 1976.

It's hot, the haze hugs the trees, the "jarflies" are buzzing in the trees as smells of diesel exhaust, cratering grease and creosote waft from the old engine terminal. The whole place seems to b... (more)

It's not clean, it's "Clinchfield clean", which means you can read the roadname and the number. You should see one that's dirty.

Ex-Appalachicola Northern, finally shorn of its well preserved blue and given that hideous abbreviated headlight, this unit is something of a utility switcher this day.

I guess you call them one unit wonders, huge trains of empties with one AC. It's at testimony to GEs that railroads are letting them go out by themselves.

Just a few hundred yards out of Erwin yard, the trio of SD40-2s leading a southbound freight lean into the superelevation as they charge across the short Asheville Highway overpass.

Idling at South Erwin, a loaded coal train waits for a crew before departing south to Spartanburg.

The DPU of a southbound coal train rumbles by South Erwin on the scenic Blue Ridge Subdivision.

Northbound out of Erwin, the "yellow dog" local heads for Kingsport with a pair of "bright future" AC's.

Clinchfield RR caboose #1065 at Erwin, TN in January 1975

A Clinchfield hopper train leaves Erwin for the coal fields.

Southbound CRR coal train at Erwin, TN || Sept 1970

CRR 801 at Erwin, TN in this October 1972 scene.

CRR F7 #821 resting at Erwin, TN || June 1974

CRR F7 #809 resting between trips at Erwin, TN || March 1971