During the Tom Moore era, excursions were a very common practice to help promote the railroad. Pulling this short excursion is CRR 200, the only F-unit that the Clinchfield owned that had an onboa... (more)

A southbound coal drag roars out of Pool Point Tunnel in notch 8. From here to Sandy Ridge Tunnel, just north of Dante, VA, it is a steady grade that requires helpers, and with the long coal drag... (more)

A weather beaten and tattered veteran of the Clinchfield diesel roster, GP7 905 rests under the sanding tower in Erwin, TN. before making another journey out on the Clinchfield system. 35mm slide... (more)

An empty coal train exits the Dante yard to serve the coal fields of Virginia with CRR 3001 and 6 other units on the point. 35mm slide from my collection, photographer unknown.

Clinchfield F7 #817 along with a leased MK Alco at Erwin, TN in March 1971

Power-short Clinchfield leased more F units from the RF&P, and a couple of the units were on this extra south at Barrett, the yard at Johnson City (Tenn.), on Nov. 20, 1963. The mainline no long... (more)

Clinchfield's SD-45 3612 is about to plunge into Speedy Tunnel (one of three in a straight-arrow row) at Mile Post 193.29 on the train's northbound climb up to the crest at Altapass, N.C. No di... (more)

Clinchfield SD-40 3000, an F B unit and another SD-40, tug on coal Train 26 south leaving Kingsport, Tenn. The smokestack in background was Borden Mills textile plant --- the plant doesn't exist ... (more)

F7 815 and GP7 903 and another F lead Clinchfield's daily coal Train 26 south through Colonial Heights south of Kingsport, Tenn.

Northbound Clinchfield Train 95 crosses Rotherwood Bridge over the north fork of Holston River west of Kingsport, Tenn. after SD-40's had shown up on the roster. Units 804-3003 and 3005

For most of its years, Clinchfield's little passenger train was handled with 4-6-2's, but when diesels took over, CRR ordered one FP-7 with a boiler, No. 200. Passenger service was discontinued i... (more)

As it should be, a southbound coal train rolls past the headquarters best little big railroad in America. Some things should aways stay the same.

Clinchfield's only boiler-equipped F7 for passenger service (which ended in 1954) No. 200 leads a northbound freight over the South Fork of the Holston River just a couple miles from Kingsport, Te... (more)

This photo was taken by the late Wiley M. Bryan, of Raleigh, NC. The train is a northbound on the pre-"High Line" grade of the Clinchfield, as it drops downgrade into Johnson City. Besides the two... (more)

Did someone call a "cab?" Four Clinchfield F-7 A units lead southbound Train 26 across the south fork of the Holston River at Kingsport, Tenn. on Nov. 21, 1966.