More Base Load? NS 786 bringing some base load generation fuel for Wateree Station into Columbia this afternoon. I had hoped that there would be more snow on the ground from yesterday's we... (more)

Entering the Yard. Bound for Wateree Station, this loaded coal train proceeds toward Andrews Yard in Columbia.

Gotta Have More Coal! Earlier this week, on December 14, I photographed CSX's C740 passing through Columbia on its way to Wateree Station, and noted that Wateree receives coal from both NS... (more)

Keep the Coal Coming! A Wateree bound coal train proceeds onto Sumter Street on its way to Andrews Yard, where it will await a crew to take it to Dominion Energy's Wateree Station.

Coal! NS 786 passes down Sumter Street on its way to Andrews Yard, where it will pass through and head south to deliver coal to Dominion Energy's Wateree Station.

The Pennsylvania heritage pops out of Merrimac Tunnel on the Whitethorn with loaded coal train NS 786.

Let's Crack the Whip and Roll the Steel!! Words the yardmaster at Andrews Yard use to tell train crews when they depart. The crew of NS 786 cracked that whip hard to get 100 loads of Ten... (more)

Loaded Coal. The recently renewed NS Wateree coal train, headed for Dominion Energy South Carolina's Wateree Station, passes through Ridgeway, SC. Conductor Daniel Gibbs, a local railfan, ... (more)

A pair of AC44C6M's shove loaded coal train NS 786 over Coopers trestle in Bramwell, Wv.

NS 768 rolls east through Switchback, Wv.

NS 768 heads eastbound over Coopers trestle on the Pocahontas district.

Loaded coal train NS 768 rolls east through Northfork, Wv.

NS 786 prepares to take a diverging signal from the Charlotte District mainline to the R-line to Columbia at Charlotte Junction.

Current and former Union Pacific EMD power brings a loaded coal train eastbound into Salisbury on a muggy August morning. With the current trend of railroads attempting to "streamline" t... (more)

NS #9339 leads four units with a Wateree, SC bound coal train departing Asheville, NC. These trains typically run with 3x3 DPU set up, but the recent power shortage has NS using a different set-u... (more)