With frost still on the ties, NS 723 heads away from Bristol in the early morning sunlight

Empty Hopper train NS 723, just off a meet with train 16T at Piney Flats, recieves a track warrant to Bulls Gap, TN where it will then head North into VA

The sun breaks through the clouds to illuminate the nose of westbound hopper train 723 as it passes some magnificant color at Willowton.

NS 723 holds and waits for a signal at Ford and permission to reverse into the siding where they will tie the train down for a TN Central Division crew.

This Virginia Division crew eases NS 723 down the siding past the 099 before cutting the train in half and tieing it down.

NS 723 coasts downgrade into Bristol at track speed with a long train of empty coal hoppers on this clear early fall afternoon.

NS 723 works West to Piney Flats to meet NS 236 before heading on toward Knoxville.

Grinstein Green in charge of westbound hoppers.