Coal empties rumble by a soybean farm on its way to the new Warrior Blue Creek mine

NS train #703 eases past Frost Cemetery near Corona, AL with coal empties bound for the newly built Warrior Blue Creek mine near Berry, AL. The Berry Branch has been dormant for over a decade but ... (more)

When the temperature has a rapid 45 degree drop, things tend to happen. NS 703 derailed while trying to leave Meridian, MS on it's northbound journey.

Riding atop former Central of Georgia trackage in a remote crossing in western Georgia, the C of G heritage unit provides pushing power as a DPU on an empty coal train that has is heading back for... (more)

A Plant Wansley train, led by the Wabash heritage unit, waits for a Plant Scherer train to clear the single track before it continues its journey south.

NS 8101, the CoG heritage unit, serves as a DPU on coal empties heading back to the mines in Virginia from western Georgia.

On a humid summer day near Glenita, VA, NS 703 rumbles through Natural Tunnel State Park with NYC 1066 leading the way toward Andover yard and a crew change.

The Central of Georgia heritage engine is in DPU service on "home rails" with a train of Plant Wansley coal empties.

TVRM's 630 goes about some switching activities in East City Yard in downtown Knoxville in order to be coaled for weekend employee specials to Alcoa while eastbound empty Georgia Power coal train ... (more)

NS 8100, the Nickel Plate Heritage unit, Leads an empty coal train through the fields of southeast Tennessee.

Westbound NS empty hopper train blows through Speers Ferry at track speed toward Norton. Nikon D80.

Distributed power unit 7711 shoves on the rear of empty westbound hopper train 703. Thirty minutes later the head end will be on the radio with Norton asking for permission to enter the yard. Niko... (more)

NS 7682 leans into a curve at Speers Ferry heading west, leading mty train 703. Not sure what happened to the number board above the engineers window. Nikon D80.

NS 703 passing through Boone heading toward a stop signal at Watkins to meet 722. Nikon D80.

A fairly new GEVO leads empty unit coal train 703 westbound by Marble Point Church just west of Gate City on a muggy Monday afternoon.