An engine that is a long way from home leads an empty string of NS hoppers bound for Weller Yard, in Grundy, Va.

CP 8719 holds in the siding at Nampa waiting for a light set of engines bound for Williamson to pass.

A loaded Progress Energy coal train comes through Harvey while getting a clear signal to go through Jasper.

CSX 8033 peeks through McClure Tunnel as it is on it's way to St. Paul, Va.

A loaded Progress Energy coal train passes under the Big Stone Gap signal.

NS 37Q is just about to begin double track at CP Pickens. Here it is passing the old Morristown Grocery building.

745 has stopped at Carterton and has just gotten a fresh Bluefield crew.

NS 8952 is on the lead of a loaded Duke Power train (DKPX). They are coming through Starnes main, in the little community of Slant.

The pushers on a loaded CSX coal train have topped the grade at Big Cut and are going under the signal at Watkins.

CSX N507-02 glides down from Sunbright into the community of Duffield on NS trackage rights.

NS 8009 blasts out of Big Four with 8700 horses roaring out of the exhausts.

The pusher of CSX KT24 brakes as they are preparing to cut off and head back to Loyall, KY.

NS 745 slides through Appalachia past the old L&N Passenger Depot. It is easy to imagine 4 or 5 L&N SD40-2's in run 8 flying past the depot on the track to the left off the train.

The 2015 Santa Train, ran by CSX Corp. and the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce, has arrived Dante. It will sit here for 15 more minutes and then continue on to St. Paul.