It's 7 a.m. at the Shelby service area as a dense fog settles in while EMDX 76 & 75 catch a breather into their eigth day of pusher service.

CSX 331 has just brought 95 mtys up from Dante all by her lonesome and now cools her heels at the West end of Shelby Yard. A pusher crews ties onto a southbound coal drag in the distance.

491's engineer side lightning bold is stencilled on backwards.

All line up ready to go south on monday morning.

Pusher power eases up the main at Shelby framed by the signals protecting the West end of the yard.

CSX 315 and 326 are pulled up next to the Shelby Yard office as the local fire department lends a hand topping off the radiators. The engines will soon be on the point of an Extra South coal trai... (more)

There's never a shortage of action at Shelby! An extra south gets a ditch light serviced, pusher power rolls west up the yard lead and two more loaded unit coal trains are called south. It's 2:0... (more)

Westbound lite helper engines run up the #1 yard track while the pushers on the rear of an Extra South hold the main at Shelby Yard on the Big Sandy Subdivision.

A westbound set of mty tubs prepares to depart Shelby Yard for loading on the Coal Run Sub as the pushers on the rear of an Extra South perform a brake test before shoving another coal train up to... (more)

It's the "Twilight Zone"! A set of light engines head toward the sand track after shoving a SB coal train to Dante. These two engines were the only things on rails anywhere at Shelby--a very st... (more)

Former Conrail 5545 is on the ready track at Shelby Yard.

Pusher power takes rest on the ready tracks at Shelby but will soon be shoving hard on the rear of another Extra South up to Dante, VA.

A Coal Run Shifter rolls up the switching lead out of Shelby Yard on the Big Sandy Sub.

Busy at the moment. At far right is the power from the Pike 29 Shift and just to the left of that is the Myra Shift.