The 73rd annual CSX Santa Train was just coming into Elkhorn City, just before the sun started shining.

It's almost dark as a manifest pulls into the yard at Elkhorn City. If your first exposure to the Clinchfield was at Elkhorn City, you might not believe it was a very modern, efficient railroad. ... (more)

A beautiful scene that has been repeated over and over again for the last 72 years; the former Clinchfield, now CSX Santa Clause Special throttles up as it leaves the 7:25 stop in Elkhorn City, Ke... (more)

Just as sunlight eclipses the mountaintops a coke train heads down the former Clinchfield with colorful INRD power in command.

The engineer of the annual CSX Santa Train gives the congregation of railfans at Pool Point a wave as the train enters the Breaks.

Crossing the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River, the 72nd running of the Clinchfield Santa Train arrives at its second stop of the morning in downtown Elkhorn City. The office car special is dest... (more)

Great place to take a lunch, kick back, and soak in the sights. Pusher set crosses Pool Point, which prior to World War I, had the distinction of being the longest single span steel bridge in the ... (more)

A northbound empty hopper train glides onto the CSX Big Sandy Subdivision at Elkhorn City as it approaches the humble Elkhorn City Railroad Museum and its outdoor collection of relics from railroa... (more)

A peek in at Pool Point. After a 2 and a half mile hike in, and waiting a couple hours for that distinctive sound, pushers finally emerge from Pool Point Tunnel and are exiting as seen here...

A trio of C&O geeps depart the Elkhorn City yard after dropping a cut of cars for the Clinchfield out of Shelby, KY. The C&O would routinely drop cars for the Clinchfield in this yard and sometime... (more)

Elkhorn City, Kentucky, the northern most point on the Clinchfield Railroad. Despite this, it was common practice for Clinchfield trains to run north to Shelby, KY. to drop trains in the Chesapeak... (more)

On a balmy afternoon along the former Clinchfield Railroad near Elkhorn City, KY., finds this heavy southbound CSX coal drag crawling up a stiff 1.5-pecent ascent from Elkhorn City to Towers, befo... (more)

A southbound CSX loaded coal train crosses the ex C&O bridge entering Elkhorn City, KY. This marks the spot where the two diesels up front and the two diesels on the rear pushing, start their 35 m... (more)

Q699 drops downgrade across Pool Point Bridge just on the outskirts of Elkhorn City, KY. The train has just came out of The Breaks and is crossing one of the more classic Clinchfield Railroad loca... (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)