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CSXT 3194 "Honoring Law Enforcement" leads southbound Q693 out of Vance Tunnel in Altapass, North Carolina at the top of the Clinchfield loops.
CSX 1 pops out of the cliffside in Haysi, Virginia with train P00123. After laying over in Russell, Kentucky for the night, the OCS would make it all the way South to Spartanburg, South Carolina before tying up for the day.
Splitting the signals at Nora, the 80th Clinchfield Santa Train starts to bite into the 1% grade that will be steady all the way to Sandy Ridge Tunnel at Trammel.
Spring color has started to pop in Dickeson County as Shelby Shifter R240-14’s pair of GE’s dig in shoving 100 empties up the McClure Spur’s 0.5% grade toward AlphaMet’s McClure Preparation Plant. After supplying their empties, they’d run the 100 loads of Met coal they just pulled back to Shelby.
April 14, 2022.
CSXT 8347 (CRR 3013), CSXT 8344 (CRR 3010), WD Cabin, 4-8-1990, 1528, Kodachrome by Don Faris, Scanned by Brian Bennett, Hunter Richardson Collection.
After battling the rain on the highway from Kingsport to Erwin, then down the lovely car sickness inducing Highway 197 from Erwin to Poplar, we arrived and began to set up after the rain had stopped. We thought we were good up until about 2 minutes before the deadhead move of the Clinchfield Santa Train entered the plant at the North End of Poplar Siding, when it began to downpour again. Despite being thoroughly soaked yet again, there were no hurt feelings on the way back north after seeing the results of our labor.
On a picture perfect afternoon on the Clinchfield, CSX's Santa Train rolls across the famous Copper Creek Trestle. The view from 167 feet above the creek at the intersection of the Clinch River is absolutely spectacular, and despite the hike up, it's easy to see why this is one of the premier photo locations in Virginia.
L425 hustles towards the Ohio-Indiana state line with a smattering of power up front as they pass the Co-Op elevator outside College Corner. 8335 was the class unit for the Clinchfield's fleet of SD40s. This is a re-upload after Flickr gave my account a suspension following my little April Fools stunt.
Coal loads bound for Brice, North Carolina, are seen rolling through the picturesque landscapes that only the Clinchfield Railroad can provide.
A southbound loaded ethanol train soars over the Boones Creek valley between Kingsport and Johnson City. This 841-foot long bridge was built in 1908 when the Clinchfield RR was known as the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway.
CSX SD40-2s 8388 and 8853 lead a K44607 on the Big Sandy Subdivision. This empty ethanol train from Charlotte took the former Clinchfield and C&O to get back north, the first train to run the length of the Clinchfield since 2015 excluding the Santa Claus train. This was pretty cool! Thanks to all the birdies who kept us informed of this unexpected and awesome move. This is a regular through route today, but standard cabs are unfortunately NOT regular.
Shouting its signature drone of 645 noise to full effect, a half-century-old Clinchfield veteran gives a hardy shove to thirty side dumps weighed down from unwanted discards of the taconite manufacturing process against a Minnesota hillside sheathed in misty morning fog and the brilliant colors of autumn. These tailings moves, oriented push-pull for bi-directional ease, operate several times per day to deposit ore scraps from Northshore Mining's iron processing plant at Silver Bay to the outfit's tailings pile located a few miles uphill, a move necessitated by the lack of wasteland adjacent to the processor's plot along the bank of Lake Superior.
Further up the line, M652 passes below the long-defunct Collco coal tipple near Haysi, Virginia on the former Clinchfield.
June 10, 2007: Extra 12 South passes under the old timber bridge at Boone, Tennessee on the Clinchfield. The classic structure has since been replaced with a modern concrete span.
CSX Office car special P001-23 enters Candy Fork Tunnel at McClure, Va on the former Clinchfield Railroad.
The one time major Clinchfield Hub of Dante, VA, is pretty quiet and bleak these days. The handful of tracks filled with empty coal cars gives the impression that there is life yet still. But is nothing more then a ruse of false hope, a convenient spot to store lots of unneeded coal hoppers throughout the CSX system.
But on the main, returning after a 3 year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic; CSX still continues on an old Clinchfield tradition in the yearly Christmas Train from Shelby, KY to Kingsport, TN. Santa's next stop is a short distance away at nearby St. Paul, VA.
And kudzu absolutely sucks to climb through.
On the weekend of September 24-5, 1983, two excursions were run on the B&O out of Baltimore. The grapevine said that the power was to be the former Clinchfield F-units, freshly painted in Seaboard System colors. The F’s were delayed getting to Baltimore, so they only ran on the Sunday excursion between Baltimore and Martinsburg via the Old Main Line.
The Saturday train, which I also believe ran from Baltimore to Martinsburg, but via the Metropolitan Subdivision, received a pair of Chessie GP40-2’s for power, and we were let down after an early morning drive down I-95. Since the excursion “only” had the Chessie units, we took one shot on Thomas Viaduct, and stuck around Baltimore to shoot other B&O action.
While most have posted their shots of the Clinchfield Santa Train from this year, I am holding onto mine just a little longer, and instead I am gonna dip into the archives from 2017. The crowds from the train a month ago were tame compared to 2017, where "madhouse" and "insane" lack the ability to paint the picture accurately. It was a dreary day for the most part, but we got a little sun for 1 shot at the north end of Allen, where the sharp train popped in the mountain sun.
A Southbound coal train exits the second Rocky tunnel as seen from a Northbound empty hopper train on 05-26-1989.
P001-23 passes the classic Clinchfield location of the Toe River Free Will Baptist Church at Huntdale, NC on a cold January evening on it's return trip to Jacksonville, FL.
Making it's annual run down the Clinchfield after a 2 year hiatus, the CSX Santa Train splits the intermediates at Nora Junction. This truly was a weekend for the books, and it was great to meet up with friends and put faces to names. Until next year!
It really was though.
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CSXT 9998
CSX P936-23
Copper Creek Trestle
Clinchport, VA
Just after sunrise, CSX 1 leads the Santa train south across the gorge at Pool Point, just outside Elkhorn City, Kentucky. We were among the 1st to arrive at this location shorty after 6 am, making the hike down in complete darkness. What an experience that was!
Q693 cruises across the massive trestle over the Broad River near Brice along the former Clinchfield mainline.
P001 rockets past the R2 intermediates outside Fort Blackmore on the way to their next gift stop in town.
CSX freight train Q693 passes over the massive former Clinchfield Copper Creek Trestle during sunrise.
The CSX Santa Train rolls south from its stop at Trammel and on towards Dante, passing the intermediates before the switch for the old Nora Spur.
A loaded ethanol train heading down the former Clinchfield RR. Passing the first set of intermediate signals south of Johnson City. The train was interchanged off the CP at Chicago and is destined for a customer near Charlotte, North Carolina.
CSX SD40-2 #8881 brings a southbound ballast train out of the siding at S.E. Kingsport, seen through the Clinchfield’s 154 foot long “Holston Tunnel”. They would run to Erwin Yard, run around their train and dump ballast back north toward Kingsport.
A matched pair of YN2 CW40-8’s thunder northbound up the loops with Q697-05 as they split the Clinchfield US&S P-5 intermediates at Big John’s in Ashford, North Carolina with tonnage for TN Eastman.
January 5, 2016.
Clinchfield Coal 100 - SW6, Carbo, VA, 8-29-1976, Lon Coone Photograph, Scanned by Nick O’Dell, Collection of Hunter Richardson
While I expected nothing less out of the weather, the cold rain that fell was not ideal, but still made it very moody in the mountains. On the outskirts of Dungannon, VA, the 2019 Clinchfield Santa Train takes the broad sweeping turn past the iconic farm so many have shot over the years.
Just after the sun crests the mountains, K706 rolls South along the former Clinchfield at Thermal between Marion and Bostic, NC with CN's BC Rail Heritage unit leading the way.
W016 slowly makes it's way down the Clinchfield loops on a beautiful late October afternoon in western North Carolina at NE Rocky
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KCS K447 exits the rock lined Ridge Tunnel, one of several tunnels on the famous loop stretch of former Clinchfield Blue ridge Subdivision.