An aging CSX C40-8W still sporting the YN2 paint scheme leads K428 North along the former Clinchfield as they pop out of Brushy Creek Tunnel at Green Mountain.
Q692 heads northward along the Toe River, approaching the south end of Green Mountain siding. The mid-train DPU is visible across the bends in the river.
The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, pushes the 92 loads up the gentle but lengthy grade of the Blue Ridge Sub.
Waycross to Russell mixed freight Q692 exits the 304' long Brushy Creek tunnel along former Clinchfield as CSX 132 leads the train north for a fresh crew at Kingsport.
Curving through the gorgeous Yancey County mountains, a former L&N SD40-2 leads a northbound empty ethanol train toward the south end of the siding at Green Mountain to meet Q693. This train will... (more)
Traveling over the former Clinchfield main line along the Toe River, a northbound CSX freight curves through Green Mountain, North Carolina, on a sunny May 11, 2014.
At the time of this photo there is but one other train movement on the former Clinchfield between Elkhorn City, KY and Spartanburg, SC. It is the local (H771) from Marion, NC working customers aro... (more)
As a dreary fall day on the Blue Ridge Subdivision comes to a close, a veteran standard cab C40-8 leads southbound manifest Q696-25 through the Classic Clinchfield Intermediate at Whitson's Branch... (more)