The Virginian heritage unit is quite attractive even in a light drizzle. Eastbound coal train 76N approaches Coeburn, Va.

NS U44 approaches Coeburn, Virginia with a set of empties destined for loading at Toms Creek on the Toms Creek Branch.

NS mine run U44 is making a reverse move on the Big Toms Creek Branch at Coeburn, VA with NS ET44AC 3646 and NS SD60E 6922. The empty coal train is backing toward the coal flood loader at the en... (more)

NS mine run U44 is making a reverse move on the Big Toms Creek Branch at Coeburn, VA. An NS caboose brings up the rear of the train as it is being used as a shoving platform. The empty coal train... (more)

NS mine run U44 has an empty train of coal hoppers and gondolas in tow as it moves east in Coeburn, VA. The train will soon come to a stop and make a reverse move on the Big Toms Creek Branch to ... (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)

A loaded Norfolk Southern coal train with NS ES44ACs 8104 (Lehigh Valley heritage unit) and 8109 is parked on the Big Toms Creek Branch at Coeburn, VA waiting for further movement. The train was ... (more)

Loads east.

After an early winter blizzard dumping nearly 25" of snow and ice onto the former N&W Clinch Valley District subsides, Norfolk Southern crews were hard at work clearing the mainline to reopen... (more)

Photographer: -unknown- from the original Anscochrome 35mm slide. The 1957 NRHS convention was one for the history books. What, with excursions pulled by K's, A's, Y's, Ms, E's and even some V... (more)

Coal train 80T prepares to leave the Big Tom's Creek branch and towards the Clinch Valley main with a train of aging Top Gons in tow.

N&W’s regular Train 5 from Bluefield, W. Va. to Norton, Va. was double-headed with 4-6-2’s to accommodate several extra excursion cars from as far away as Washington, D.C., sponsored by the NR... (more)

In early morning sunlight, train no. U45 enters the Clinch Valley main running long hood forward at Coeburn, Va. The train has just loaded at Alpha's Toms Creek Prep Plant and will run to Carbo wh... (more)

On a warm, mosquito filled, summer night finds NS' SD70ACe 1017 and 1000 on point of a loaded train at Toms Creek. VA. The train is awaiting a crew to take the train to either Bluefield, VA or Bul... (more)