Watauga Chapter NRHS excursion from Kingsport, TN to Appalachia, VA. Eastbound excursion is drifting downgrade and will soon enter Natural Tunnel before entering the valley of the Clinch River.
Watauga Chapter NRHS excursion is proceeding west on NS's former Southern Appalachia Division. Having reached and summit at Big Cut, then descended to the Clinch River, the excursion is starting... (more)
Watauga Chapter NRHS excursion is proceeding west on NS's former Southern Appalachia Division. Story goes that the god fearing folks Scott County eschewed legal alcohol and a fair number of thos... (more)
CSX’s Conrail Heritage Unit leads Westbound NS KL01 (CSX E090) out of Natural Tunnel at Glenita, Virginia on the Appalachia District.
I like SD40s, especially the "no dash" carbody ones and in this originally PRR, ex PC, ex CR we have the best of both worlds. It's leading a CSX empty hopper train on NS approaching Na... (more)
Norfolk Southern train coal train U42 rolls east through the community of Glenita, Virginia.
A pair of CSX ES44ACs lead empty Eastman train E090 from Kingsport, TN through Natural Tunnel on its way to the loadout at Creech in Kentucky. Though traffic levels have significantly declined in ... (more)
CSX U722-10, running under trackage rights on NS’ Appalachia District as KL01, exits the West portal of Natural Tunnel with CSX 911, the Honoring First Responders unit, in the lead, with 110 emp... (more)
U41 emerges from the dark of Natural Tunnel and into a winter wonderland as it hauls empties back to Andover.
NS U41 is seen exiting Natural Tunnel with 80 empty hoppers for Andover. These hoppers are loaded at Dixianna just north of Norton for Eastman Chemical Company’s coal gasification plant in Kings... (more)
799 pops out of Natural Tunnel on a cool fall evening with an empty Birmingham coal train bound for Andover.
Two lite motors roaming in the Andover direction on The Appy in the small community of Glenita, Va on the outskirts of Natural Tunnel.
NS 799 exits Natural Tunnel with a pair of matching BNSF GE's leading an empty hopper train bound for Andover.
With a matching pair of YN2 GE's, T090 exits Natural Tunnel headed Eastbound for Kingsport via NS trackage rights.
The sun lights up Natural Tunnel as 45 loads of coal bound for Eastman in Kingsport heads south as a clean YN2 AC44 leads the train on the NS Appalachia District.
