The sun decides to pop out during a snow shower as yesterday's 111 crew takes today's 22A West toward Knoxville.
Steam rises from the hot asphalt being unloaded from this GATX tank car at Bristol Asphalt.
NS 23G about to head through Morgans Cut. It was amazing to see how narrow this cut was and how little clearance the train had between its self and the rock walls.
A friendly conductor throws up a wave as U5K makes a run into the NS Norton Yard.
NS 25N coasts downgrade past the MP 402.6 at track speed with autoracks trailing.
CSX 689 leads a long train of loaded CMIX coal hoppers over the Holston River.
NS 16T has ran around 111 and is about to meet an I2A that has waited back for the meet with this hot 16T.
Leaning hard into the snaking turns of the A line, this trio of GE's work hard to tackle the grade by the 8 milepost Eastbound into Bristol.
Just back from its trip as 721 with empties, this train has been reset and is ready to be loaded and head back out as 722 ECP train.
NS 9680 passes by the site of an O. Winston Link photo from 1957 at Seven Mile Ford. The house in his photo no longer stands today.
A full house in the Yuma yard. NS T74 drops off 89 empty hoppers on the siding as 3 Dash 9's sit idle waiting assignment.
After being caught by the defect detector on the Pulaski District just before crossing over into TN, 22A has changed crews and is bearing down on a meet with 2 EB's at Piney Flats. Railroad: Norfolk SouthernLocomotive: GE C40-9 (Dash 9-40C)Location: Bluff City, Tennessee, USALocomotive #: NS 8878Train ID: NS 22APhoto Date: May 25, 2008
Ex Conrail now NS 8349 works hard to tackle the grade as it brings NS 23G, loaded with full autoracks and double stacks, into Bristol, TN
2 CSX EMD's make a very rare appearance heading West on Norfolk Southern's A line, decending the grade at MP 8A.
Orange line from Vienna to New Carlton. This was my Metro from Vienna VA to Landover MD to see the Washington Redskins vs Detroit Lions. Redskins won 34-3 - Hail to the Redskins.
