On what was a gorgeous fall day, train 194 crawls up the near 2% grade, surprisingly without helpers.

The NS "Blue Mule" DC to AC conversion pushes a coal train over the top of Flat Top Mountain via the Elkhorn Tunnel on a beautiful fall day.

Mission accomplished, as the 3 newest pushers (two new ET44ACs and the "DC to AC" conversion) duck into the void atop the infamous Elkhorn grade located inside the cavernous Elkhorn Tunn... (more)

The blue mule and 2 ET44AC's push 83K east to Flat Top

The J58 helper trio shoves on the rear of 64M, passing through the trestle at Maybeury. About a mile ahead, the train will crest Elkhorn grade inside of Elkhorn Tunnel.

756 eases Eastbound out of Hatfield Tunnel, the only part of the Pocahontas Division Mainline in Kentucky, rolling through the trestle in a 10 mph slow order.

Racks meet racks

Eastbound rack train 272 darts out of Coopers Tunnel just a few short miles from the once busy yard at Bluefield, passing train 83K and their train of previously sto... (more)

This is a classic scene as CSX Q249 exits the Harpers Ferry Tunnel and drifts across the Potomac River. The sound of the horn echoing off the mountains, the rush of the water below and the locomo... (more)

AC44C6M Rebuild 4001 leads hot intermodal train 218 Eastbound out of the single track Tunnel 4. This tunnel was one of many along the Pocahontas Division to be notched for double stack intermodal ... (more)

A westbound Bluefield pusher set rolls downgrade into Vivian Tunnel at Kimball, West Virginia heading toward Farm with a fairly clean SD70ACe as the second locomotive.

Empty coal train U786 heads west through the tunnel in Harper's Ferry, WV.

Operating from Dickinson Yard to Mullens, the last NS-operated chemical train rolls into a tunnel just north of Mullens as it traces the Virginian main toward Elmore Yard. Once the train arrives i... (more)

233 Exits Tunnel 3, Westbound on the single track at Stepptown, with GECX 2039, one of the Tier 4 Demonstrator units leading.

Eastbound 188 has just knocked down the signal at Stepptown and enters the short mile long single track section. The train will soon enter Tunnel 3 and pop out at Greyeagle on the other side.