U56 crew dead heads with a lite engine to Saint Charles to pick up some misc. rail cars.

CSXT 3284 a new tier 4 locomotive rounds the curve upgrade on Big Pennington Hill in Cane Creek, VA.

NS 745 sits in the siding between Jasper and Tito awaiting a meet with the 60 coal loads from the U40.

NS 9733 exits the far south tunnel of the twin tunnel set at Hill Station, VA. approx 45 minutes after the passing of what could have been possibly the last Santa Train.

CSX 3041 backs it empty coal hoppers thru the small community of Turner's Siding, VA which is a site of a once active coal tipple owned by the Charles Turner family.

NS 9131 pulls down slightly passed the passing track near Benedict a couple miles still yet out of the town of St. Charles, VA.

This NS 70ACe is just starting into dynamic braking as 707 descends the grade at NS milepost 21 of Horton's Summit just out of Duffield in the fall colors.

Conductor M.A. (Big Al) Sargent aligns the switch from the house track in Pennington Gap to the siding so the the C821-30 can now make its movement.

Pan of NS 8064 at the Cross Creek Trestle its quiet small and hidden behind the highway gaurdrail.

CSXT 8033 with the CSX Santa Train in tow climbs the steep grade at the Copper Creek Defect Detector.

CSX 57 sits in the house track in downtown Pennington Gap awaiting a crew to push the freshly loaded Benedict coal train.

Pretty much everyone under the sun was at this location to get "the CPL Shot" I believe I was the only one that hoofed it on down the tracks a bit farther for this angle. I however met alot of gre... (more)

A rough old Dash 8 brings a loaded south ethanol train down through Morley and the Travillion tunnel.

NS T08 or CSX Z531-12 heads up the hill from the Clinchfield to Frisco Yard via the connection track to take 61 coal empties to Yuma Yard to be picked up by NS 387.