After restoration in the late 1980s, the ex-Interstate Railroad's President's Car currently serves Big Stone Gap's The Gap Corporation as its Regional Tourist Information Center. On this Christmas... (more)

A loaded CSX coal train, led by No. 7746, holds the main as an empty hopper train passes to the right on its return trip to eastern Kentucky. The engineers give a customary friendly wave as they m... (more)

After a long wait, a MOW train slowly approaches the switch to enter the main line at Big Stone Gap. Over a dozen gons filled with new crossties for placement along the ROW trail No. 2758.

A CSX empty hopper train passes under the Big Stone Gap signal and rolls back onto home rails after utilizing NS trackage rights between Frisco, Tenn. and Big Stone Gap, Va.

A pair of AC4400CW's pushers on a CSX coal train have just rolled onto NS trackage at Big Stone Gap. The graying clouds suggest that the crew may encounter a thunderstorm a bit later in the aftern... (more)

The EOT device hanging in the coupler gives away the fact that these are pushers on the rear of a CSX coal drag. The train has just rolled onto NS track at Big Stone Gap to begin its journey via N... (more)

It's an extremely foggy SW VA morning. The head light on a CSX coal train, running on NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Va. and Frisco, Tenn., slices through the dense fog approaching East... (more)

A unit train of Silversides, loaded at Westmoreland Coal's Appalachia transloader and destined to Duke Power, approaches the signal at Big Stone Gap. The track in the foreground is CSX's connectin... (more)

A work train with gons loaded with new ties awaits permission to depart the siding and place ties along the ROW for maintenance crews. This Friday the 13th was unlucky for this crew as they would ... (more)

A light rain and patchy fog cover the southwest Virginia area as a trio of SD50's in Seaboard System paint roll onto NS tracks at Big Stone Gap.

A trio of C40-8W's roll upgrade across the bridge connecting CSX and NS in Big Stone Gap. In a few hundred yards, the crew will access NS via trackage rights for the trip to Frisco, Tennessee and ... (more)

NS 607, a Yuma Turn, has just exited Jones Cut and crosses Wildcat Creek approaching the Irondale section of Big Stone Gap. The crew is destined to the small yard at Yuma, Virginia to set off its ... (more)

Slug 2204, GP40-2 mate 6450 and GP38-2 2523 shove on the rear of an eastbound coal train on the bridge over Powell River allowing CSX to access NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Virginia a... (more)

The Pennsylvania Heritage unit is on the lead NS 796. The Birmingham bound coal train makes it's way through Irondale just passing the number 9 milepost of the Appalachia District.

The weekly CSX barrels past the APP signal in the Strawberry Patch part of Big Stone Gap while on their way down the old L&N's Cumberland Valley.