Proof of the recession, NS 22A has about as many stacks as it does locomotives pulling the 6000 foot train.
Arriving westbound with a long train while eastbound 38Q waits on the siding.
The crew of NS 22A led by a GEVO and not the usual Dash-9, brings their train to a stop on the siding at Bristol, to tie down for an outbound crew. Nikon D80.
Yard is full, 22A has just come down the main for a crew change. 723 is cut in two to fit in the yard as it waits for its crew as the local V19 crew boards the train for their days work.
Usual mid morning train 22A departs the NS Bristol Yard about an hour before sunset today.
The crew of the V19 watch closely as motorists continue to dart in front of them, ignorant to the blasts of the Nathan P5, as they drag about twenty cars up Scott Street in downtown Bristol.
Local V19 street running down Scott. St. back toward the yard after a set off/pickup at Bristol Asphalt.
NS 3216 basks in evening sunlight, as the yard switchers idle away on a slow day at the Bristol Yards
NS 22A rolls down the main alongside the Trainstation at Bristol.
Bristol local NS V19 crosses Piedmont Ave. on its way back to the yard at Bristol.
With its inbound crew just taken away to the hotel, NS 22A sits at the yard office waiting for a crew to head out of Bristol.
After a broken rail at Montgomery held 22A for a few hours at Roanoke, the crew are finally coasting their last couple miles to the yard at Bristol.
An SD40-2 sits in front of the old TOFC ramp at Bristol.
A former Southern high hood SD40-2 sitting dead on the engine track at Bristol Yard.
NS V19 heads back across town down the middle of Scott St. on old rails which used to connect the Southern Ry yard to the NW yard.