The fourth and final run of the 2018 New River Train crosses the calm New River on track 1 at Hawks Nest at a brisk 10 miles per hour before picking up speed for an on-time arrival at Hinton for t... (more)

Birmingham bound coal train NS 710 rumbles out of the rock-lined Carlos Tunnel at Garland, climbing out of the Tug Fork Valley on the former N&W Dry Fork Branch between Iaeger, WV and Cedar Bluff,... (more)

On the final approach to the last stop at Kingsport, P935-17 crosses the North Fork of the Holston River with their 3-engine, 12-car consist in tow for the 76th running of the Santa Train.

Loaded coal train NS 810 crests the nearly 1% grade climbing out of the Guyandotte River Valley and through Staggerweed Tunnel on the Gilbert Branch, and is now beginning to head downhill towards ... (more)

A trio of UP motors leads Q693-21 down the Big Sandy Subdivision, passing onto the single track at CH Cabin near Chapman, KY in the last light of the day. While the rest of the CSX system undergoe... (more)

Florida East Coast SD70M-2 #105 continues it's tour of the Norfolk Southern system on lease as it leads Chicago to Norfolk stack train 234 across the Ohio River into West Virginia. The 105 is cert... (more)

With two leased CIT SD60's and 118 cars of freight from the Kanawha Valley, northbound manifest KNWA KN381 crosses the Ohio River Bridge at a brisk 10mph. The entire consist is still on the ex-CR/... (more)

A quad set of GE motors waits on the Wilder Main at Glenn Avenue for their turn to head south onto the CC Subdivision towards Corbin. The L&N searchlight at SE Wilder can be seen in the background... (more)

Rounding the curve onto the double track at NX Cabin, Q317-03 is just a few miles away from their destination of Queensgate Yard across the river in beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio with a Dash 9 class ... (more)

Northbound CSX manifest freight Q542-13 creeps across the Ohio River Bridge into the Queen City of Cincinnati with a KCS Belle leading a grey KCS AC and a CSX GEVO. The double track bridge, which ... (more)

Cumberland bound manifest Q316-24 dashes through Ashland after fixing an EOT issue leaving Russell, passing PRLX 61 and MMC 863 sitting quietly on the industrial track at Mansbach Metal Company as... (more)

It was quite a busy day on the Pocahontas Division.. four eastbounds stacked up back to back between Welch and Iaeger waiting on pushers for the shove up Elkhorn Grade, a slew of westbounds on the... (more)

Southbound manifest Q505-06 departs the Queen City heading towards Louisville with a YN2 AC leading two other veteran GE's past northbound Q574-03 at KC Junction just outside of Covington, KY. The... (more)

Just like home.. Two of the three ex-CN GP40-2 widecabs that have made their home at the SunCoke/Kanawha River Terminals Ceredo Docks idle away in the yard during a blustery snowstorm waiti... (more)

In the early morning sunlight, the northbound deadhead run of the 75th Annual Santa Train rolls through the community of Fort Blackmore along the former Clinchfield Railroad main line. The deadhea... (more)