NS 8000, The first AC motor in the modern NS fleet, struts it's stuff as it works hard in pusher srevice along the Pokey.

Look again, this is not your average 3/4 wedgie. It is a Pokey pusher set featuring new AC and DC units with an SD70M-2 tucked in the middle. A pretty cool pusher lashup for the Pokey.

A conductor prepares to set out a car that was missed while loading a coal train. Meanwhile, a mail train wastes no time getting out of the way.

Here is a first look of the recently modifed Glen Alum Tunnel. Looks like progress has butched history again. This was done as part of the Heartland Corridor Project.

I know, I know, I'm wearing the Glen Alum Tunnel photos out. It's a sentimental thing. I grew up around this tunnel and the Heartland Corridor Project is going to change it soon.

The HVSRY GP7 in classic C&O colors looks right at home on the old C&O rails.

Not much has changed at the CSX, Peach Creek Yard Office over the years. Sadly, a new CSX sign has covered the old Chessie one that stood there for years. For a view of the old sign, check out Pho... (more)

Summer time is in full swing along the Pokey. The wild flowers bloom and the coal trains move their product to the powerplants that fuel Americas summer energy needs.

MTY's headed back to the coalfields pass thru Iaeger.

Turn job, NS 80N hustles mty's towards Williamson for a refill of black diamond.

Welcome to Williamson.

This old bridge is part of the wye in Iaeger. NS J5M waits for NS 18M. These two units will become pushers for the daily freight train.

A slow day in Bluefield.

The Pokey goes to hoppin just as soon as the curfew ends. Here pushers J29 holds main two waiting on NS 148 to give a shove east as NS 233 rounds the bend on main one.

A freight train passes thru the yard at Williamson.