Eastbound manifest train , with NS Nickel Plate Heritage leading, entering west end of yard.

Eastbound manifest train , with NS Nickel Plate Heritage leading.

The Nickel Plate and Lehigh Valley are on the rear of NS 83A on their way to Bluefield to cut of and continue assisting trains.

Nickel Plate in New Jersey

Continuing the daily Eastbound parade of intermodals, NS 22V hustles through Manville with the Nickel Plate Road heritage unit leading the way.

In the middle of a strangely warm December, Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate and Lehigh Valley Heritage units shove hard on the rear of Q44 as they cross Amonate Trestle on the Dry Fork Branch.

Heritage units leading on the Pittsburgh line is common to see in 2015, as seen with 747 being led by the Nickel Plate heritage unit on a gorgeous Spring morning

The Nickel Plate Road heritage unit rolls west out of Big Four Tunnel No. 2 as it heads to Farm, W.Va., for a helper assignment.

The Lehigh Valley unit passes the Nickel Plate unit. Both are in pusher service on the Pokey.

NKP Heritage Unit gives a hand to a grain train tackling the infamous Elkhorn Grade at Big Four, named after a long forgotten coal company in McDowell Co. WV....

The Nickel Plate Road heritage unit brings up the rear of helper set J5W, passing the severely leaning concrete MP 392 at Kimball, as the fall colors start to show.

The clouds have broke, and the rain is falling as darkness begins to set in. Here, the Nickel Plate Road heritage unit is framed by the classic and modern signals as J59 shoves the NS 746 into the... (more)

NS 8100 rolls past Bannon Diamond with a coal drag on a warm September afternoon.

Shoving hard on the rear of train 746, the Nickel Plate Road heritage unit pushes the long coal drag toward Bluefield.

As the light fades quickly and the clouds begin to dump rain over the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, the Nickel Plate Road heritage unit sails across the Coopers viaduct trestle, shoving on... (more)