A light snow provides a great backdrop as a daily freight exits the east portal of Glen ALum Tunnel.
Stretched through Hemphill 1 & 2 tunnels, autorack train 274 holds at Hemphill signal while a helper crew ties onto the rear at Farm and a air test is completed.
The last light of the day kisses the last of the fall colors along the Pokey as NS 274 passes the Mingo signal but doesn't call it because it is for main 2 only.
An eastbound with a battered nose splits the signals at Mohawk, WV on the Pokey main. There's alot of great scenery along this colorful stretch of mountain RR'ing.
A pair of NS GEs bring eastbound autorack train 274 out of the early morning shadows and by the signals at Bluefield, Virginia on Main #1.
Norfolk bound racks run through the early morning fog of the Tug Fork Valley at Old Joe.
The doomed signal bridge at Hull!
All the tracks are filled on this beautiful August morning with S91 headed west toward Williamson with hoppers for the TVA and 274 headed east toward Winston Salem, NC. In all my visits to this lo... (more)
274 heads east through Vulcan past hoppers stored in the center siding.
NS 274 departs Roanoke Terminal under a hazy sky.
Timed freight 274 enters downtown Matewan between the huge floodwalls erected around the low lying city.
274 rolls east through Naugatuck toward Williamson.
