Rolling coal and flood loading coal! A coal truck has just dumped his load at the Apex Mining site at Kyber, as U53 prepares to cut away to run around their train to start flood loading system hop... (more)

NS U53, led by an SD50 in Conrail Blue, breaks into the sunlight between Blackwood and Kent Junction (MP 10.1) on the ex-Interstate Railroad. The crew left Norton with 6 loads and 13 empties. The ... (more)

U53 has taken a right hand turn at RF Junction off the Pardee Branch and onto Pine Branch on ex-IRR rails. The crew is destined to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine Branch.

Cab hop U53 crosses over Roaring Fork Creek between Roaring Fork and Cane Patch, Va. on the ex-IRR's Pardee Branch. After relieving a crew on the branch, conductor Bill Erwood and engineer Ronnie ... (more)

U53 departed Andover Yard, rolled around the east leg of the Appalachia wye and waits on the main line while conductor Joe "Robbie" Robinson realigns and locks the wye switch for the mai... (more)

U53 approaches Dorchester Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad. U53 left Norton with 3 empty covered hoppers and a bad order car and is destined to Andover Yard. U53 will pick up loads at Blackw... (more)

The cab on U53 crosses the bridge over Callahan Creek at the west end of Andover on its return to Andover Yard. U53 had spent the morning loading commercial cars at Wentz. After weighing, U53 will... (more)

The conductor rides the cab steps as U53 approaches Roda with 20 yellow ball empties. The Roda coal storage silo is evident in the background; the Roda loader is adjacent to the silo.

After quickly picking up 12 loads and spotting 12 empties at the Blackwood No. 1 loader, located along the ex-Interstate Railroad's Appalachia-Norton main, U53 dashes towards Andover Yard at a loc... (more)

NS U53 has come to a stop, and also the end of the ex-Interstate Railroad's Roda Branch, just above the switch to the empty tracks at the Roda loader. Brakeman Harold Yearwood throws the switch as... (more)

Westbound NS U53, led by Conrail 5415, rolls out of a canopy of trees into the sunlight at ex-Interstate Railroad MP 13, also designated as JANE in association with Track Warrant Control (TWC) dis... (more)

The cab on NS U53 slowly rolls past the Roaring Fork loadout located at the end of Pine Branch on the ex-Interstate Railroad.

NS U53 crosses the Powell River (background) and the ex-L&N's CV Division (foreground) approaching Appalachia. After leaving Norton with three covered hoppers and a bad order car, U53 picked up 2 ... (more)

Conductor Harold Yearwood rides the lead engine on one side as engineer Jim Chafin leans out of the cab on the trailing locomotive on the opposite side. U53 has placed "yellow ball" empt... (more)

U53 has picked up 20 "yellow ball" empties from Westmoreland Coal's Appalachia transloader and backs around the wye in Appalachia. Once U53 clears the wye switch, it will utilize the track in the ... (more)