Dash 9 number 8981 leads a Norfolk Southern coal train past the color position light signals at Falls Mills, VA as it heads west along the Pocahontas District on October 22, 2014.
Norfolk Southern's "original NS" and Norfolk & Western heritage units are in helper service as they push a train the final few miles into Bluefield in the Pocahontas coal fields.
NS coal drag 742 thunders eastward at Falls Mills, VA on its way to Bluefield. From there, crews will take this train to one of the several Duke Power plants scattered throughout the southeast.
Norfolk Southern's Lackawanna Heritage unit is one half of the helper set from Bluefield. They are running around the train they will assist at Falls Mills for the final shove into the yard at ... (more)