A CSX coal train, running on NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Va. and Frisco, Tenn., rolls through Irondale, located a short distance east of Big Stone Gap.
It's a hazy summer day in southwest Virginia. The silence is broken as four units still in Southern livery approach the Sunset Inn crossing near Big Stone Gap.
NS' Central of Georgia heritage unit leads NS train 386 eastbound working through the late day shadows at Irondale, VA on its trek from Andover, VA to Knoxville, TN.
NS 722 works hard upgrade with Appalachian Mountain coal at Irondale past one of Appalachia's other major resources, Timber, ready to be trucked to mill.
CSX 727 leads a westbound empty LAKX unit coal train at milepost 9 on NS's Appalachia District as it utilizes trackage rights between Frisco and Big Stone Gap.
CSX E345 is dropping down the hill toward Big Stone seen here in the winter wonderland at Irondale.
NS 78G is crawling eastbound as it comes by the 9 milepost, just east of Big Stone Gap on the NS Appalachia Division.
703 westbound about to cross Willis Rd. just east of Irondale.
