Slowly approaching the signal in Ashland, KY, CSXT 6403 with a welded rail train prepares to stop.

CSXT 469 passes the massive AK steel operation with a loaded coal train. Turn about 120° to the right and the last remaining C&O signal bridge in the area gave this train an Approach Medium, he s... (more)

Surrounded by steam from AK Steel is a westbound CSX freight passing on what could be the last C&O era signal bridges in the Russell area.

Getting these units looked easy but took a lot of sitting and waiting as they ran up and down the private railroad that paralleled CSX here.

A "target of opportunity" as we made our way to a railfan week in southern Indiana.

Recently released from CSX's Huntington Locomotive Shops in the new "boxcar logo" scheme, GP38-2, No. 2640 trails on a westbound light power move from Huntington to Russell.

Fresh releases from General Electric in Erie, CSX ES44AC's No. 3077 and No. 3078 lead Russell-Erwin manifest, CSX Q696 alongside the Ohio River at Mansbach Metal in downtown Ashland. The locomotiv... (more)

The AK 1216 sits silent at the top of the iron ore rotary dumper hill waiting to push the last few hoppers of iron ore through when the time comes.

AK Steel SW1500 1216 returns to the mill with a load of coke from the coking plant on the Big Sandy River. The train is traveling west along the CSX main shortly after two days of clouds and rain... (more)

As the rain of the past two days heads off to the east, AK Steel SW1001s 1224 and 1223 switch their yard adjacent to the CSX main in the bright evening sunshine.

AK Steel No. 1220, an EMD SW1500 switcher idles near the stock piles of coke in the Ashland Yard. Despite the recent closing of one of AK Steel's production facilities, numerous SW1500's remain on... (more)