Under a misty raining skies the outbound crew of the westbound NS 735 (Juliette,GA-Memphis,TN/BNSF) is waiting on receiving track 4 on Birmingham bound NS 15T on receiving track 5 to depart out of NS Debutts Yard. What can I personally say about the two lead motor other then it's a rarity now a day, well at least in this area to see a pair of BNSF "Grinstein Green" SD70MAC's on the head of a Georgia Power coal train. Now a days on a lot of these coal train you'll catch mostly BNSF top of the line motive power of a few NS motors on the train. As of late a lot of the 70MAC's both "Grinstein Green" and the faded Pumpkins had come out of storage and put on a few of these coal buckets. As soon as everyone is in the clear NS 735 will depart out of Chattanooga, and make the mad dash for Sheffield, AL through the miserable night, hopefully putting the train in to Memphis for the BNSF Railway on Saturday of Sunday.
Photo was taken from the Chattanooga Tent Company with permission!
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