An April shower has made it a tuff trip up the Pokey grade. The pushers have cut off the rear and its downhill into the yard now.

Arriving in Norfolk Southern's Bluefield Yard, NS 9869 pulls a intermodal into the yard to change crews in a heavy downpour of snow.

Heritage unit and companion about to depart for Welch to work in additional pusher duties on heavy coal drags.

A pair of Canadian National engines bring an eastbound loaded NS ethanol train out of Bluefield, WV for the journey east to Roanoke on a damp and dreary Sunday evening.

N&W Heritage arriving into the former N&W yard at Bluefield.

Empties roll west through the seemingly abandoned former coal boom town of Iaeger W.Va.

NS Heritage unit, Lehigh Valley and another AC unit cut off from a coal train while an empty coal train heads back to the coalfields for a refill.

A unique set of Pokey pushers consisting of the Southern 8099 GE Heritage unit paired with the EMD Erie Heritage unit. Both wearing green paint made for an unusual sight along the Pokey. I called... (more)

A NS research train sits idle for the weekend in the Bluefield Yard under the old coaling tower.

On a snowy Sunday afternoon a pair of NS GEs bring eastbound autorack train 272 out of Bluefield as they continue their eastbound trek toward Roanoke and eventually Winston Salem.

Westbound NS stack train 233 arrives in Bluefield behind a mix of BNSF and NS power on a cold and snowy February morning.

A snowy Sunday afternoon in Bluefield, WV finds a pair of NS GP38-2s easing through the yard at as an eastbound loaded coal train makes the final climb into Bluefield on the mainline before stoppi... (more)

Here we see a view of the NS-36 fresh out of the paint shop and recently overhauled, one of two Rider cars used with the Track Geometry Department of Norfolk Southern. The Track Geometry Departmen... (more)

Norfolk Southern hopper train No. 77A rolls west into the snowy yard situated in Bluefield, W.Va., to tie its train down, remove the motors, and take them to the fueling pad. Roughly 36 hours prev... (more)

A Pokey pusher set gets service before returning into the coalfields to help get the coal drags up the tuff Pocahontas grade.