Engineer Danny Fisher and conductor Mike Young man U52 as it rolls onto the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch at Kent Junction. U52 is headed to Cumberland River's Coal's loader at the end of... (more)

Conductor Mike Young (on ground) shows a brakeman trainee the finer points to uncoupling and securing a cab in the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard.

NS U52 ambles through Crossbrook approaching Mudlick Junction on a somewhat overcast day amid fall colors. The crew has gathered yellow ball empties at Westmoreland's transloader in Appalachia and... (more)

NS U52, with three locomotives and a Southern bay window cab, waits in #1 track at Appalachia for NS U53, with two engines and an N&W cab, to pass. U53 is en route to Westmoreland Coal's Appalachi... (more)

Cab hop U52 crosses the high bridge over Powell River approaching Appalachia on its return trip from Norton to Andover Yard. A second bridge over the ex-L&N CV main is just out of view to the left... (more)

NS U52 rolls through Mudlick Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad. The crew is destined to Andover Yard after loading 23 commercial loads at Wentz during the morning. The empty cars in the left ... (more)

NS U52 slowly rolls east on the ex-Interstate Railroad's main line at the east end of Andover Yard. The crew has 23 commercial loads in tow that it loaded at Wentz during the morning. The metal bu... (more)

NS U52 returns light to Andover Yard after setting off "yellow ball" loads at Westmoreland Coal's Appalachia transloader. In earlier years, the Interstate Railroad's freight station occu... (more)

NS U52 crosses Mudlick Creek at Osaka on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Roda Branch. The crew has picked up 34 "yellow ball" loads at Roda and will gather an additional 32 loads at Prescot... (more)

Westbound U52 heads into the afternoon sun as it crosses the bridge over Powell River and Route 610 at Josephine. A few miles ahead at Blackwood, a crew change will occur and the train will then b... (more)

Storm clouds approach as NS U52 rolls through lower Roda en route to the Roda tipple. U52 will place 22 yellow ball empties at Roda and pick up a similar number of loads.

Two forms of transporting coal meet at the crossing between Cane Patch, Virginia and Roaring Fork, Virginia on ex-Interstate Railroad rails. NS U52 was loaded at Cumberland River Coal Company's lo... (more)

NS U52 rolls through Mudlick Junction on ex-Interstate Railroad rails with empty "yellow ball" Southern 70-ton hoppers. U52 is destined to Prescott (Osaka), located less than a mile ahea... (more)

On a cold, January night on the former Interstate Railroad, a lone GE idles beside the yard office in Andover Yard as it awaits its next crew and cut of empty hoppers to spot at a local mine.

After delivering empties along the Pardee Branch and Pine Branch, U52 left its motive power on a siding at Kent Junction. In a few hours, the locomotives will be used as helpers on NS 771, which w... (more)