This loaded coal train is parked in the Keyser Yard waiting for crew. I believe it to be an NS train, with a New Jersey destination. The long string of aluminum hoppers caught my eye. It's 7:30 AM... (more)
A northbound CSX manifest heads onto the Rahm flood plain just after crossing the Ohio River.
On the last westbound leg to the top of the grade at Oreton, this CSX empty hopper train encounters quite a bit of blowing snow.
A westbound CSX crosses Bootleg Trestle, near Natural Tunnel, VA.
A westbound CSX passes an old barn as it makes the second of five crossings of Stock Creek, a tributary of the Clinch River. Natural Tunnel is about a mile ahead.
This westbound kicks up some snow at the crossing near the top of the grade at Sunbright (which is hardly living up to its namesake this snowy winter day in the Appalachians).