An eastbound CSX unit coal train was dropping down Alleghany Grade and through Moores Tunnel near Backbone, VA on May 18, 1997, led by AC4400CW No. 269.

After a maintainer freed the frozen switch at Howell Tower from #2 to the Old Way, Q614 curves around to head east up the Abbeville Sub. He would encounter another frozen switch at Emory siding (... (more)

Westbound manifest freight cools its heels just to the west of downtown Rochester near CP-373.