In the dying light of an autumn day, heading a short executive train, the head unit, originally CRR, is in one of its many subsequent liveries. Long may she reign.

A nice looking L&N restoration rests on the wye as a former CSX switcher rolls past sounding a horn of a collector during the Horns in the Holler event.

A lone unit rolls down The Rockhouse between Martin and Hazard. More than likely, this is the helper that shoves loaded coal trains from Hazard to Martin going in Southbound direction. This is nea... (more)

Mine run R233 rolls through the small community of Maytown during it's daily journey between Martin and Hazard, with a string of empty GALX hoppers in tow.

CSXT 3065 leads a northbound ethanol train past the big C&O cantilever at Dawkins. The Big Sandy Sub is a great line to try and net these ethanol trains on as CSX funnels them from the north down ... (more)

CSXT 844 pulls its train through Hazard as it passes some old L&N searchlight signals. Although the EK Sub is dead along most of the line, the southern portion still has an active load out that tr... (more)

CSXT 844 brings empties west through the kudzu covered curve at Edjouet. In the background is a set of L&N searchlights that once littered the line until flooding took most of them out along the R... (more)

CSXT 170 pops out of the tunnel at Hazard as it enters the yard and prepares to make a run up the E&BV Sub to Martin. The vine that ate the south, kudzu, has taken over the hillside the tunnel cut... (more)

CSXT 3065 sits ominously in the fog tied down just outside of Hazard with a loaded coal train ready to head back to Martin.

CSX's Hazard Yard sits quiet and empty as we find four old cabooses waiting for their turn to be used down mine spurs. BO 903032 is a blast from the past, still sporting its Chessie paint scheme.

CSXT 3276 splits a pair of L&N searchlights as they march through Pineville on the way to Corbin.

Shortly after crossing the state line at Hagans, VA the steam special is heading back toward Louisville after drawing huge appreciative crowds all along. I hope to see her again in the same place... (more)

A pair of CSX GE's bring coal empties up the C&M Branch to be loaded at Resource Mine near Manchester, KY.

CSX ES44DC #5461 brings 10 loaded coal hoppers through 'Siler' off the CV Sub from Resource Mine.

This year I had the opportunity to visit CSX's former Clinchfield route between Elkhorn City, KY and Kingsport, TN, to witness the 82nd running of the CSX Santa Train, which annually travels throu... (more)