A mine run returns to the Dante yard. Mine turns were run 5-6 days a week and yielded a strong majority of the coal on the Clinchfield. Coal would return to the yard in Dante and would be weighed ... (more)
A solo SD40 switches a cut of loaded coal hoppers out in the Dante yard south of the scale house. By 1979, seeing a unit still in original gray and yellow was rare as most of them had been in the ... (more)
During the Tom Moore era, excursions were a very common practice to help promote the railroad. Pulling this short excursion is CRR 200, the only F-unit that the Clinchfield owned that had an onboa... (more)
One of the most popular rebuild programs of the 1970's and 1980's was the Paducah GP11 rebuild. The talented mechanics for the Illinois Central Gulf at the Paducah, KY shops developed a program t... (more)