Exhaust mixes with fog coming off the snow, as pushers on the rear of a heavy coal drag near the top of Elkhorn Grade. The pushers have been on the rear since Farm in the long grueling climb to th... (more)

NS Train 746 coal loads climb Elkhorn Grade in Notch 8 on a snowy afternoon on the Pokey.

The Interstate heritage unit and another AC motor shoves hard against the back of grain train, NS 83K as they enter Elkhorn Tunnel.

Amid beautiful colors, the Interstate heritage unit shoves hard on the rear of NS train 97Z as it enters Elkhorn Tunnel.

Dash 9 is at a crawl near the summit of the Elkhorn Grade at Sandy Ridge. The 2 44AC pushers job is about over as the summit (& Elkhorn Tunnel) are directly behind me.

This pusher's job is done as it brings up the tail end of 16,800 HP (2 Dash 9's & 2 44AC's) that has just "pushed" a loaded coal drag up the west slope of the Elkhorn Grade. Note the massive exhau... (more)

Fall has arrived along NS's Pokey, seen here as a set of 44AC's push another coal drag up the steep Elkhorn Grade.

It's a starry night on the busy ex-N&W Pocahontas mainline as helpers sit patiently at Maybeury, W.Va., as a eastbound permeates the nighttime air while silhouetting the signals and foreground loc... (more)

This train was just sitting there waiting to move east. It seemed like an odd place. What used to be an annual trek to get the great leaf shots.

A pair of pusher units head west through Maybeury, en route to their next assignments.

Shoving hard on the rear of eastbound loads, No. 8102 passes through the community of Maybeury, W.Va., while en-route to Bluefield with a heavy coal drag.

Poking through Elkhorn Tunnel in Maybeury, NS 8301 charges through a heavy downpour of snow.

NS #6704 blasts out of the Elkhorn Tunnel with a westbound hopper train.

En-route to Bluefield, NS 8114 assists train 68K, a Ethanol train. At the point of the train is one Norfolk Southern ES44AC, along with two Canadian National locomotives numbered; CN 2666 a... (more)

NS 8104, the Lehigh Valley, along with NS 8114 the Original NS, makes his way into Elkhorn Tunnel assisting a loaded coal train.