NS AC44C6M 4001 "Sonic Bonnet" takes the lead position on Chicago bound train 216 and is seen pulling north by CP Cowart in Austell, Georgia thirty minutes prior to it's departure from Whitaker Ya... (more)
NS 216 comes around the bend into Downtown Hiram, GA with the 4001 (DC to AC) unit leading
NS 216 with the 4001 (DC to AC) unit, slowly pulls North out of Rail highway 1 at Whitaker Yard in Austell, GA and a warm summer evening. He will double to Rail Highway 2 and hang the EOT and head... (more)
Former C40-9 #8879 looks much different now in its new life as NS #4001
Formerly NS C40-9 8879, built in April 1995, 4001 was the first to be rebuilt to AC44C6M specifications in July 2015, released for service and testing in December 2015.
GE23's crew heads back to Inman Yard, "engine light," after dropping inbound autoracks at East Point which came in earlier on train 275. NS AC44C6M 4001, one of the two original DC propulsion to A... (more)
AC44C6M 4001 pulls a loaded coke train west through Emsworth. This is the first time an AC44C6M has ventured through here on its way to Conway and points west.
NS "Sonic-Bonnet" AC44C6M 4001 leads a transfer from Colehour yard west into Proviso Yard,
Winston Salem Southbound RY train Z548-26 prepares to leave the NS yard in Winston Salem NC with a loaded grain train. The lead unit today is one of two specially painted rebuilds from a D9-40C to... (more)
The NS 4001 and NS 4000 "DC to AC" units, as the V41, push the NS 756 just south of Madison, NC to Belews Creek Steam Station. These are manned pushers and not DPU's. The Winston-Salem D... (more)
Empty grain train 51Z heads west to Bluefield for a crew change as NS 4001 leads the train through a short cut just east of Ingleside.
The NS 4001 and NS 4000 "DC to AC" units lead the NS 756 just south at Wirtz to Belews Creek Steam Station.
The Mayo River is running muddy as NS 4001 and 4000 lead a Belew's Creek coal train across the deck span over the river.
The Blues Brothers roll a southbound Belew's Creek coal train through Starkey, Va., on its way from Roanoke.
Loaded coal train bound for Belews Creek with the pair of blue twins on NS's roster.