The Norfolk & Western Heritage unit sits alone in the yard at Hawthorne in Norton, Virginia awaiting its next assignment.

Engineer Tim Decker brings the Q696 passed the signal at Dungannon with coal dust blowing off the top of the first few cars.

The weekly Martin, Ky to Eastman Chemical Co. coal train has made it to Kingsport, TN by this time with the pusher returning thru Poor Valley just a bit from Ocoonita on its way back to Corbin, KY

NS 9361 with Engineer Funk at the controls backs around the wye to hook up to 45 coal loads to take back to Norton Yard. Engine 9361 at one time was side swiped while in BNSF territory and the num... (more)

The 350 Wolverine heads east toward Detroit from Niles, MI.

This little NS SD40 is doing a bit of switching with coal loads bound for Eastman on a hot summer day at the Frisco yard on the TN/VA line.

CSX Conductor Freyer has just give a big wave as they have passed by the Cane Creek road crossing on their way to assist a loaded northbound coal train in Pennington Gap.

CSXT 578 pushes its empty coal train through Millers Cove to the loadout at Benedict for Lone Mountain Processing.

This CSX Benedict train is completing its reverse move thru the Bonny Blue wye.

CSXT 3284 One of the new ET44AH Tier 4 Locomtives bought by CSX is passing by the 252 MP

Southern 4501 has an impressive smoke show as it rolls across the New River trestle at Radford. This also the same trestle where people was spotted for the return trip and the police and rail offi... (more)

CSXT 330 scoots by at track speed (35mph) behind CSXT 232 and just behind the Dryden Volunteer Fire Department after pushing coal loads to Watkins on the Norfolk Southern Appalacian District.

CSX 86 rounds the curve into Hubbard Springs witha backdrop of a small amount of fall foilage left.