Good-looking power on a short morning train. The Town's cabosse awaits volunteers to make it presentable.
Picking up speed after the meet with 16T
Westbound past hills waiting for Spring.
Drifting downgrade with a very long train trailing.
The work train's crane pulls a length of new rail off a flat using an electro magnet.
Westbound finally has a clear main as all of the track curve gang equipment gets into the siding.
Arriving westbound with a long train while eastbound 38Q waits on the siding.
Waiting for clearance to enter wye to spot cars.
This empty rack train still comes west daily --- when the slumping auto industry will effect it is uncertain.
Going into the siding as 22A holds the main in the yards
Getting underway with 25N tied down on the siding
Rounding the curve and running parallel to Hillman Highway just before ducking under the East main Street bridge.
Person walking (east) is on the extended Virginia Creeper Trail that now parallels the NS tracks west to Depot Square.
At speed on an unusually mild November day in the Virginia Highlands.
Popping out of one of the many short tunnels on the north shore of the river.