With the sun setting into the mountains sky, NS 747 heads down the mainline at Stuarts Draft on the Norfolk Southern Shenandoah Valley

With the freshly repainted Virginian heritage unit leading, NS 29F grinds through the cut and up the grade at Kings Mountain as it heads south towards Chattanooga and Atlanta

NS 11Z slows to a stop on the siding at Buena Vista as NS 16T passes on the main in the last gasps of golden light

NS 11T climbs the mountain grade through the farmlands of Shawsville

CSX 3194 leads CSX C334-31 by the former L&N depot at Berea

CSX 3194 leads CSX C334-31 out of Tunnel 9 at Boonesboro on the CSX CC Subdivision

CSX P001-07, the executive filled Kentucky Derby train, runs along the tangent through the farm fields near Shelbyville

NS V71, the local out of Crewe, VA, rolls through the CPL signals at Womacks as it heads toward Patrick Henry for pickup