It's 10:30AM but the sun has yet to burn through the heavy mountain fog hanging in the hollar as a former SD45 leads a Sandy Valley Shifter under the flood loader at Myra.
One can almost hear Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs picking out "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on the banjo as a Pike 29 Shifter snakes out the SV&E Sub along Shelby Creek in the early morning fog.
Three mine runs lined up in Danville Yard awaiting rested crews and track time. It's Saturday and CSX has a total of 5 trains operating on the branches south of the yard already this evening.