Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.
Light helpers catch the last rays of sun as they roll westbound through Flat Top Yard against a background of blazing fall colors.
NS 857 arrives at Flat Top Yard with 139 loads.
Crossing the West Virginia/Virginia state line, the pushers on NS 776 are hard at work for the last few miles to Bluefield, passing the CPL's at the east end of Flat Top Yard.
"Bad Motor" SD40-2 is being set out in Flat Top Yards by a crew from Bluefield.
This is what you call a colorful scene.... EMDX 2012 is pictured leading train 83E as it pauses to make a pickup, as NS 68G whizzes by on main 2 with a clean pair of BNSF Dash9's leading the loade... (more)
Easy downhill, this coal drag will be in Virginia in seconds in what essentially is a trip from the mountains to the sea with WV black diamonds.
An ex-Con, now in B&W sits tied down in Yards amid the fall colors.
