A long wait at the end of a trip is rewarded with one final westbound for the patient photographers, though the delayed trip home would end with the photographer hitting a deer at 3 in the morning... (more)
During the drought of 2002.
A long string of over 100 coal empties curves back into the hills as the head end crosses the Potomac River on the Magnolia cutoff. See image 1136 for a different view of this location.
Electronic flash on the locomotive, head and ditch lights on scenery.