A local freight led by CRR 3011 cross Lake James on the Catawba River Bridge just north of Marion, NC. Note the caboose in the middle of the train. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unkn... (more)

Clinchfield #1 rests inside the B&O Railroad Museum's Roundhouse. #1 ran excursions in the 1970's, but today it is on static display.

Clinchfield 1402--the company's Erwin, TN-based 250-ton capacity Industrial Brownhoist derrick--is working to clean up a derailment on the Southern at Glenita, VA. Back in the days before contract... (more)

Many locomotive historians count SCL No. 1 (a de-rated SD35) as the first one to be lettered for the "Family Lines," a non-railroad that served as a combined moniker for the companies under (then)... (more)

In May 1973, the L&N and Clinchfield had been pooling power on unit coal trains. At the time, my wife and I lived in an apartment in our old home town of Appalachia, VA--and it overlooked the L&N ... (more)

Clinchfield GP38 2001 sits in the yard in Spartanburg, SC. One year after the date of this photo, the Clinchfield would no longer exist as it was rolled into the massive Seaboard System. Despite t... (more)

A lone Clinchfield GE U36C sits in the yard in Spartanburg, SC. In just a year from now, this unit and the 6 others that the Clinchfield took delivery of in 1971 to help ease a power shortage, wou... (more)

On July 3rd, 1972, Clinchfield RR. GP7 906 was involved in a crash in the yard in Elkhorn City, KY. when a cut of hoppers got loose in the yard and crashed into the locomotive servicing area on th... (more)

Clinchfield F7A 821 had a truly interesting history. It was built in 1949 for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad as its 814. The NC&StL used its F-units for both freight and passenger... (more)

On a particularly grubby and rainy January day in 1975, two well-traveled Clinchfield F-units are lined up for service on the east side of the old diesel shop at Erwin. The 816 was one of just a h... (more)

In 1954, the Clinchfield railroad had finally made the transition from the steam era, to the diesel era. However, that left several steam locomotives, including these 4 E-2 class Challenger type l... (more)

In 1972 Senator Howard Baker utilized the famous Clinchfield 1 spot for old fashioned "whistle stop" campaign tour. Here, the train is passing through Nashville, TN. on the last day of the tour. 3... (more)

Northbound mixed freight at Frisco, TN with SD40-2 #8338 still sporting its Clinchfield paint scheme in this June 1985 scene.

As a summer storm brews in the distance, four pooled Clinchfield SDs are ready to pull south for St. Paul, VA with a unit coal train at L&N's Loyall, KY yard. The concrete shell of the coaling tow... (more)

L&N First 864 (displaying green classification lights for a following section) is in the siding at Big Stone Gap awaiting a recrew. A derailment at Dryden, VA has the railroad plugged for the mome... (more)