Nearing a crew change at the former Clinchfield Headquarters in Erwin, Tennessee, a fresh ES44AC leads a southbound Corbin train under a road overpass just north of Rock Creek.

Winding upgrade just south of Erwin, Tennessee, CSX 756 and company lug a southbound loaded Duke Power Coal Train bound for Brice through an s-curve at Chestoa on the former Clinchfield Railroad. ... (more)

Grinding upgrade and negotiating the Loops, NS 135 struggles to reach the summit at Ridgecrest, NC on its eastbound journey to Asheville, then Knoxville via the River Line.

With a face only a mother could love, NS westbound local P87 negotiates the Southern Loops just west of Old Fort, North Carolina. This train will end up looping around and emerging from a rock cu... (more)

EMD's rule the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch as four Blue Ridge Southern SD40-3's cut through a field in rural western North Carolina.

Continuing downgrade eastbound from Canton, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Southern 4201 leads T31 through an s - curve and under a road overpass on the outskirts of Canton on the former Southern Rail... (more)

On the second day of 2015, a trio of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2's assigned to T31 switch the paper plant in Canton, North Carolina before working eastbound to the NS interchange in Asheville.

Led by the familiar face of a recently repainted C40-9W, NS westbound empty unit coal train 762 curves through the small town of Matewan, West Virginia on the rails of the former N&W Pocahontas Di... (more)

With a train of mostly new bethgons in tow, a pair of C40-9W's lead westbound empty coal train 756 around the classic and familiar face of a N&W CPL located at Sprigg on the Pocahontas District.

Shoving hard on the rear of westbound loaded train U60, J85 crests the grade at Virginia Lee just after exiting the tunnel. These locomotives will push to Hurley, cut off and return light to Well... (more)

Dropping downgrade into the small community of Hurley, Virginia, NS westbound loaded train U60 passes the unique N&W signals in Hurley on the Buchanan Branch.

Emerging from the former N&W tunnel at Virginia Lee and cresting the steep mountain grade, NS westbound loaded train U60 begins it's decent to Hurley to drop off it's train and cut the pusher's of... (more)

After getting it's trio of pushers in Weller Yard a few miles back, NS westbound loaded train U60 struggles upgrade as it knocks down the new signal at Lynn Camp on the Buchanan Branch. The origi... (more)

Grinding and weaving upgrade through the coal fields of Buchanan County, NS U60 carries it's westbound loaded train above the small community of Home Creek on former N&W rails.

Shortly after picking up 15 coal loads and adding them to their westbound loaded coke train, NS U60 works around the corner as it approaches Thomas Wye behind a former Conrail EMD. This westbound... (more)