Southbound executive tour of the former Clinchfield. Good photo location between Haysi and St. Paul are very few and far between. They met NB freight 694 here..

Southbound executive tour of the former Clinchfield. I can’t believe the motorcade missed the best lit spot. But they wuz a bunch of flatlanders anyway. LOL.

Ahem, well we were standing there talking, saying, “You know they ought to build a railfan viewing platform here”. Here’s expressing appreciation.

J732 (Casky, KY - Nashville, TN Radnor Yard) passes the intermediate signal at Bakers on its return north. Today's train is unusual, as the J732 symbol is usually reserved for the daily Casky, KY ... (more)

Last Tuesday's CSX 970 West brings a long string of empties past Hebron Presbyterian Church, which has headstones from the 1700s. The headstone in the foreground belongs to Nancy Bell, Born Octob... (more)

CSX Q360 begins the Westward assault toward Indy

Rolling south pre-dawn

The 74th annual CSX Santa train passes under the Roaring Fork Tipple in a misting rain.

CSX M750-20 is on the rear of the massive CSX X675-18 (Hamlet, NC-Nashville,TN) helping the train to get over the crest of the Raccoon Mountain grade.

A CSX GP30 style road slug sits on the point of a short local in CSX's small yard in Decatur, Illinois. Locomotives: CSX 2210 (GP30 Road Slug), CSX 6435 (GP40-2), CSX 6442 (GP40-2), CSX 2275 (GP35... (more)

To be a child again... LaGrange, KY provides a moment of excitement, wonderment, and joy for this child in his fathers arms. A family photo shoot in the nearby park cut short when the child excite... (more)

The 27th of September, 2014 found me in Cumberland, Maryland for the annual Railroad Days event at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. In between the daytime celebration, and the night photo sho... (more)

Coming by a field of cotton ready for harvesting