I posted the helpers first. Here is the front of that train I uploaded earlier. Back in the coal days. Back when there were locomotive on the roster not numbered in the 4000s, LOL.
A GP38-2 is on the point and there are helpers in the middle with these guys kicked back and rattling along in Run 8 all the way to Big Cut and the top of the grade. Back in the coal days.
Eastbound Norfolk Southern train U40 rolls under the signal bridge at control point Watkins just west of Gate City, Virginia. the train is headed for Frisco, Tennessee with 37 cars of coal. The ... (more)
Former C&O unit was being used in a helper set. Some zealot got crazy with the renumbering.
A pair of older CSX AC4400CWs still wearing their as-delivered YN2 paint scheme lead T090 approaching Gate City.
A pair of older CSX AC4400CWs still wearing their as-delivered YN2 paint scheme lead T090 along the NS Appalachia District approaching downtown Gate City.
A pair of older CSX AC4400CWs still wearing their as-delivered YN2 paint scheme lead T090 along the NS Appalachia District about to duck under US 23 near Gate City.
A pair of CSX AC44s still sporting the YN2 scheme lead empty coal train U090 West along the NS Appalachia District headed back for Loyall.
Norfolk Southern train U41 rolls railroad east through Gate City, Virginia.
Norfolk Southern eastbound U40 with 30 loaded coal hoppers rolls passes the Trinity Bell Church on the outskirsts of Gate City, Virginia.
Passing Grogan Park as he enters Gate City.
Norfolk Southern AC44C6M #4030 leads empty coal train #745 north at Gate City,VA on their way up the Appalachia District.
An empty CSX unit coal train passes through gate city, Virginia at the west Watkins signal as it heads to Loyall, Kentucky
724 passes the intermediate at the T36.7 with an Eastbound coal train.
A pair of CSX AC4400CWs still sporting the classic YN2 scheme lead 45 coal loads for Eastman Chemical in Kingsport as they head east along the NS Appalachia District just east of Watkins.
