With helpers on the rear, an EB loaded VAPX train lays down the sand as it struggles upgrade.

The former Conrail SD80MAC class unit waits just outside the roundhouse doors at the Russell Locomotive Shop.

A colorful BNSF unit leads NS 883 eastbound through Prichard, WV.

The leaves are just starting to turn as former Conrail SD60M 8764 takes the point on a colorful mix of motive power as train Q547 waits on a meet with northbound mty hopper train N253 at Wofford, ... (more)

SB Q211 passes the old L&N passenger depot in Paris, KY.

Sunlight tries to filter through the trees on a Kentucky ridge as NS 234 snakes along the Tug Fork and US 119 at Goodman, WV.

Empty hoppers roll eastbound behind a single SD70 across the impressive Ohio River Bridge at Kenova, WV.

Eastbound 851 rattles across the massive Ohio River Bridge at Kenova, WV behind a single GE.

The Kanawha Shifter rolls past HO Cabin at the west end of Huntington Yard with a long cut of hoppers bound for the KRT transloader at Ceredo.

NS 217 slows for the crossovers at Oakvale, WV. In the background is the former Virginian (PD District) mainline trestle over FiveMile Creek.

BNSF ES44DC 7716 leads NS train 376 north at the northern end of double track near Mason, KY on a hot and humid central Kentucky morning.

Eastbound 8777 leads NS 50K back into daylight and through the Williamson floodwall at Mingo Tunnel on the Pokey Division.

T228-18 takes the north leg of the Pineville Wye off the CV Sub mainline and heads up Straight Creek on a clear but cold Winter morning.

SB Q541 rolls past a long cut of stored hoppers at Farriston, KY.

A Leatherwood mine run out of Hazard is snaking along the North Fork on a muggy July afternoon.