CSX's Seaboard Air Line heritage unit leads Duke Power empties north along the Levisa Fork River. This train will load at Typo Mine in Hazard, KY before returning south to Duke Energy's Cliffside ... (more)
A CSX rail train rolls around the curve of where the old Chapperal Coal Company once stood several years ago along The Big Sandy outside of Pikeville. At one time, this site was owned by former Ke... (more)
Westbound CSX Q694-18 passes through the Pikeville Cut Through just after sunrise with the CSX 911, the specially painted Honoring First Responders engine, in the lead.
Westbound CSX V691-30 passes under the C&O cantilever at East End Pauley on their way to Russell with an SD50-3 leader...this was about a 15 second sucker hole of sunlight as the whole trip was cl... (more)
Nighttime in the Appalachia town of Pikeville is broken up by the daily southbound Q693. Here they approach OF Cabin, a timeless C&O cantilever still standing the test of time. OF Cabin is along t... (more)
An increasingly-rare BCOL cowl body Dash-8 leads K428 Charlotte ethanol empties through the Pikeville cut shortly after sunrise on a muggy summer morning.
Clinging to the edge of the rocks in the impressive Pikeville cut, empty ethanol train K428 snakes its way up the the former C&O Big Sandy Subdivision in the first light of day. The BC Rail barn o... (more)