A pair of bright future painted engines hitch a ride on the rear of this eastbound loaded coal train into Shelby Yard near Pikeville. Shelby is former C&O and is a hub for helpers and helper crew... (more)

CSX 873 rolls under the old C&O cantilever signal at Ford's Branch. At Shelby, he'll pick up two pushers for the trip to Dante, VA.

ES44AC rolls by a dead AC44CW under the old C&O cantilever signal still standing at Ford's Branch, on the north end of Shelby Yard on the Big Sandy Subdivision.

CSX 936 cruises through the Cut-Thru in Pikeville with some shiny new hoppers.

CSX 936 cuts-thru the Cut-Thru in downtown Pikeville.

Once the pride of the CSXT fleet, CSXT 602, "The Spirit of Maryland" looks a little worse for the wear while still pulling it's weight in the coalfields.

Seen here consecutive numbers engines 910-911 pull a loaded coal train east as it rolls through the massive Pikeville Cut-Through.

Seen from the eastern most end of the Pikeville Cut Through this eastbound loaded coal train is sporting 4 locomotives on this September morning. This is quite an unusual sight.

The switcher looks like former Canadian Pacific, even sporting CP-font numbers, but is former Union Pacific and is now part of NREX. Here, it is shuffling recently loaded hoppers in Coal Run Yard... (more)

Shelby may be empty right now, but it's been hopping all day with the reopening of the Kingsport Sub (former Clinchfield) following the week-long maintenance Jamboree. Number 53 is in charge of a... (more)

As seen in this photograph....this loaded EB coal train is traversing through one of the largest man made land mass moving projects since the Panama Canal. This cut was made to divert the railroad... (more)

C&O 8106 is one of the very few U boats to receive this paint scheme. Shown here working one of the many coal truck tipples in the town.

CSX 4772 take a cold, snowy spin on the turntable in Shelby Yard. Despite the snow and ice, the turntable operated without even the slightest bit of trouble.

The second of two trains that met the extra south at Marrowbone enters the east end of Shelby Yard.