NS I2A sits Idle for the New Years holiday at Bristol, VA
CSX 301 works just north of the Kingsport yard to build the rest of Q697 and head North
NS 16T is the 2nd of 3 Eastbounds within 15 miles of each other headed toward Bristol for new crews.
With frost still on the ties, NS 723 heads away from Bristol in the early morning sunlight
NS 750 has just left CSX trackage and is about to switchback over to the NS mainline Eastbound.
NS Q25 creeps toward Frisco waiting for W50 to clear up in the yard.
NS 37Q rolls into Bristol with 2 Union Pacific Dyna Cats as the first 4 high and wide loads on the train.
NS 22A works West toward a meet with NS 236 at Marion.
NS 8331 tops a grade on the A line with the train of empty autoracks still climbing behind
NS 37Q works West running all leased power across the Holston River.
CSX 409 waits in the siding at Boone for a meet with another CSX trackage rights train. Must have been a heck of a something to put a dent like that over the conductors window.
With 25N already waiting ahead, the crew of NS 22A sit and wait off the crossings for 236 to arrive in Piney Flats so they can get moving again.
NS 7592 leads this loaded coal train South over the NS Appalachia District.
NS 25N, with a new crew, rolls past NS 236, about to change crews, as the engineers exchange a friendly wave.
Hopper train, NS 51R, heads West through Salem, VA