The 75th Clinchfield Santa Train eases across the massive Copper Creek trestle near Clinchport, Virginia.

Santa Comes Early. The Santa Train, covering the former Clinchfield Railroad between Shelbiana, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee, traditionally operates on the Saturday before Thanksgiving... (more)

Riverside Grocery. One of the great retail oriented scenes on the Clinchfield Railroad portion used by The Santa Train is Riverside Grocery on Dickenson Highway in the "company town&qu... (more)

While railfanning on the former Clinchfield RR, I came across this box car sitting in Spruce Pine North Carolina.

Clinchfield 800 leading the 2017 Santa Train past the barn and houses at Osborne Curve in Dungannon

Clinchfield 800 leading the 2017 Santa Train at North End Boody

Clinchfield 800 leading the 2017 Santa Train at Union Baptist Church in Dante

Clinchfield At Church. On the night of Saturday, November 18, 2017, a very special "post ending" to the day of the CSX The Santa Train was arranged in Huntdale, North Carolina as Clinchfiel... (more)

The Clinchfield Railroad was primarily a coal hauler, although not as big as B&O, C&O, N&W and others. The gray and yellow 3010 was one of 24, SD40s such units in the Clinchfield, seen here at E... (more)

Tea Kettle Cab. The cab of Clinchfield Railroad locomotive no. 1 is open to visitors at the B&O Railroad Museum, affording guests young and old the opportunity to sit behind the control... (more)

Santa On Santa Train. The addition of Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society and Museum's Clinchfield Railroad 100 to hold the markers on CSX's The Santa Train was a sight to behold on ... (more)

Classic streamlined Clinchfield 800 leads an Ohio Rail Experience excursion north, passing DT&I codeline still showing a mile measurement so crews could eyeball their speed in days long past.

The Clinchfield 800 leads a nighttime deadhead move out of the portal of Willet Hollow Tunnel, as it makes it’s way back towards home at SARM after running excursions on Lhoist trackage.

Clinchfield EMD F3(A) #800 crosses one of the several wooden bridges along the old Tennessee Central. The #800 was used for a series of weekend excursions sponsored by the Southern Appalachia Rail... (more)

Clinchfield #800 leads the last Lhoist North America Employee Excursion Train of the year eastbound through Westel, TN. on another beautiful November morning.