Three trains awaiting crews, back in the days of coal, as the sun weakly peers through the humid haze draped over the Appalachian hills. "It's going to be another scorcher", as the old ... (more)
With the stacks of the coal-fired (then) power plant in the background a coal train awaits departure. At the time this trains would sit here for days waiting to leave. These units must how been ... (more)
This train of “dirty” coal has backed up the branch to await cleaning at the prep plant. This unit has been rebuilt into AC44C6M 9245.
Three Norfolk Southern locomotives await their next assignment in the yard at Carbo, Virginia.
A NS powder train that originated from Norton, rests in Carbo yard after it's journey.
A stranger (UP SD70M 5176) to the coalfields served by Norfolk Southern waits for its next assignment in Carbo Yard at Carbo, Virginia.
A second hand unit is idling in the yard by the small car shop with a short work train.
Carbo is on the tail of a wye. This track used to extend much further north and served many mines plus the Appalachian Power coal-fired plant next door. Today the mines are gone and the powerpla... (more)
Norfolk Southern train U44 is moving forward out of one of the yard tracks at Carbo, VA. The empty coal train is headed to Toms Creek, VA on the Big Toms Creek Branch for loading. However, the U... (more)
A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe is tied down in the yard at Carbo, VA with two other SD70ACe units.
A mine run, with the lead engine still in N&W livery, switches at the south end of the Moss 3 prep plant. Although Moss 2 and Moss 3 mines had ceased operations a few years earlier, significant co... (more)
A brakeman checks his switch list at Carbo Yard in Carbo, Virginia.
NS 4004 waits for its next call to duty in the NS yard at Carbo, VA.
NS C30-7 8036 resting at Carbo, VA || Feb. 1987
