NS train 228 (left) meets NS 290 at Cedarville, Virginia, just north of Front Royal

Preparing to depart from the Virginia Inland Port (VIP)

Not the proverbial 'horse of a different color', but certainly looks like a horse in sheep's clothing on the nose of the lead unit!

Pre-fabricated turnout awaiting installation

11R running the humps at Cedarville before rolling down grade towards Riverton Junction.

203 rolls past the Virginia Inland Port and begins the down hill grade towards Riverton Junction during a lovely fall evening.

Any ice cold lookin catfish leads 211 south through a light freezing rain.

The sun has just appeared over the Blue Ridge Mountains as a 8 hour late 204 climbs out of the Shenandoah River Valley on the trip to Rutherford Intermodal Yard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. To the... (more)

After working at VIP, 228 pauses on the main before continuing south towards Riverton Jct.