CSX N258 rolls through the dip of Bacon Creek as it heads south toward Etowah

CSX N258, a loaded coal train bound for Tennessee, rolls into the curve near Williamsburg on a beautiful summer afternoon

Mty coal gondolas pulled by lead engine 645 head north, back to the coalfields of KY. The gons have alot of reinforcing ribs, something not visible from ground level.

It's a good thing CSX has a 10mph speed restriction around the Wye at Patio, otherwise the driver of this pickup wouldn't be here anymore. The dispatcher called in the warning about 2 minutes aft... (more)

Two big GE AC's are in full dynamics as they hold 95 Georgia Power mtys in check droping downgrade through a deep cut at Trapp on the way south to Ravenna Yard. Northbounds pulling upgrade put on... (more)

Lucky number 7 takes Georgia Power hoppers up river toward Hazard Yard. Number 7's destination today is the big loadout at Typo, KY just north of Hazard.

N258-10 hustles Georgia Power mtys toward Ravenna Yard along the EK Sub in Eastern Kentucky. In the background is the once busy SouthEast Coal Company Central Prep Plant at Calla.

A single southbound hopper train sits on the main at recently downgraded Ravenna Yard. Once jam-packed with hoppers, Ravenna now sports only 4 yard tracks and the main, enough to make a railfan c... (more)

CSX 371 leads mty hoppers around the south leg of the EK wye. Wonder why the crews have always called this the "Graveyard"? Some headstones date back to 1902.

It's well after 8:00 PM as SB N258 finds a fading ray of sunlight while holding the main through Singleton, TN.

N258 rolls downgrade holding a 10 mph speed restriction at Lafollette, TN on the KD Sub.

SB N258 has crested Duff Mountain and rolls past a meet with NB Q544 at Kilsyth on the KD Sub.

NB GALX mtys for Typo exit the tunnel at Langford on the CC (KY) Subdivision.