At milepost 1: The conductor of NS U47 rides the caboose (essentially a shoving platform) as the train backs past milepost 1 of the former Interstate Railroad in Stonega, VA. The train of empty ... (more)
NS U47 crew with light engines is coming into downtown Appalachia, VA from Norton, VA. The locomotives will soon pass the old passenger station and use the wye to back toward the Andover Yard sho... (more)
NS U47 approaches Appalachia as it crosses the bridges over Powell River (background) and the ex-L&N's Appalachia-Norton CV main (foreground).
The cab on NS U47 rolls slowly by MOW equipment stored at Kent Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 is pulling empties to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine ... (more)
NS U47 creeps across a trestle over Pot Camp Branch of Roaring Fork Creek a short distance north of Dunbar, Virginia on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 loads a unit train at Cumber... (more)
NS mine run U47 with a short two covered hopper train crosses the Guest River as it heads out on Steer Branch at Norton, VA.
After gathering the loads at Critical Fork, located on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Dixiana Branch, U47, an ex-IRR mine run, has returned to Norton and pulled through Bopar onto ex-N&W rails. The ... (more)
NS U47 rolls east through the town of Coeburn, VA with a loaded coal train. The local mine run crew will take the train to Cleveland, VA where eventually another crew will move the train further ... (more)
NS U47 moves forward in downtown Appalachia, VA with empty coal hoppers and gondolas. U47 originated in Norton, VA on this day. Once NS U47 clears the wye in Appalachia, VA, the train will couple... (more)
NS mine run U47 with two ET44ACs and a caboose waits by the long vacant L&N passenger depot in downtown Appalachia, VA for another train (NS 386) to get into the clear. Once NS 386 clears, NS U47... (more)
Along Norfolk Southern's Clinch Valley District in southwest Virginia, NS U47 emerges from the east portal of Little Bull Tunnel with empty Duke Power coal gondolas. Little Bull Tunnel is the mid... (more)
NS U47 which is being led by a C40-9 sits behind the Pepsi Cola plant in Norton.
U47 snakes it's way along while going through Dixiana.
An empty coal train comes upgrade from Esserville toward Dixiana.
