The conductor motions his engineer of Q217 to make a reverse move into the siding at S.E. Nichols to pick up a dead engine from a train that was tied down for a week.
Yard 2 in Cincinnati can be touch and go for over under sometimes you may get lucky and have Indiana & Ohio park a train there and Norfolk Southern provide one either leaving or coming into Cincin... (more)
Just 2 miles into its journey to Birmingham, NS 147 crosses the first of many trestles along the CNO&TP with a pair of SD70ACu rebuilds.
A pair of rebuilt KCS SD70MACe 3968,3967 brings CSX Q217-22 through the Nichols Siding along the CSX LCL Subdivision.
The Racetrack sure lives to its name with all the Deadheads and Express moves!
One of the most beautiful place to enjoy railfaning in my books has to be Bluefield as the yard sits just below the mountains this makes a good back drop for trains heading east out of Bluefield.
Most of my National Train Day was spent watching trains roll through the Beautiful Historic Downtown of LaGrange, Kentucky. Traffic was slow along the LCL Subdivision only 2 trains ran in an 8 hou... (more)
11 months ago this AC44C6M was known as NS 8849 Dash 9-40C ironically this loco still looks fresh.
What a few months makes November 2016 this locomotive was in Active service, today the locomotive is at Juniata shops being rebuilt as NS 4059 AC44C6M.
Q 231 rolls past the L&N Serchlights at Visalia with a Citirail leading.
With only a few of the former Union Pacific SD9043's roaming on NS Catching them as DPU's is just as good as leading.
NS 169 comes across Tenn Bridge with an Fresh SD70ACu on point.
NS 276 rolls through the Tennessee Countryside.
NS 215 rolls across the Trestle at Walton over the CSX LCL Subdivision.
NS 817 ascends the 1.7 % grade into Ludlow and eventually Cincinnati in the little daylight that we had Friday morning. 817 is Alliance Coal train for Princeton Indiana, running via Cincinnati-Fra... (more)
