A light helper set moves towards Farm on a soaking June morning with an SD70ACe leading the westbound move. The three unit set had just exited the Elkhorn Tunnel around the curve.

Exhaust mixes with fog coming off the snow, as pushers on the rear of a heavy coal drag near the top of Elkhorn Grade. The pushers have been on the rear since Farm in the long grueling climb to th... (more)

NS Train 746 coal loads climb Elkhorn Grade in Notch 8 on a snowy afternoon on the Pokey.

The Interstate heritage unit and another AC motor shoves hard against the back of grain train, NS 83K as they enter Elkhorn Tunnel.

Amid beautiful colors, the Interstate heritage unit shoves hard on the rear of NS train 97Z as it enters Elkhorn Tunnel.

Dash 9 is at a crawl near the summit of the Elkhorn Grade at Sandy Ridge. The 2 44AC pushers job is about over as the summit (& Elkhorn Tunnel) are directly behind me.

This pusher's job is done as it brings up the tail end of 16,800 HP (2 Dash 9's & 2 44AC's) that has just "pushed" a loaded coal drag up the west slope of the Elkhorn Grade. Note the massive exhau... (more)

Fall has arrived along NS's Pokey, seen here as a set of 44AC's push another coal drag up the steep Elkhorn Grade.

Making the assault over Elkhorn grade on a typical January morning along Norfolk & Western's Williamson to Bluefield mainline, 100 loads of export coal grind through the community of Maybeury, app... (more)

It's a starry night on the busy ex-N&W Pocahontas mainline as helpers sit patiently at Maybeury, W.Va., as a eastbound permeates the nighttime air while silhouetting the signals and foreground loc... (more)

This train was just sitting there waiting to move east. It seemed like an odd place. What used to be an annual trek to get the great leaf shots.

A pair of pusher units head west through Maybeury, en route to their next assignments.

Silhouetted against the spring foliage, a pair of Bluefield based AC helpers assist a loaded coal drag over Elkhorn grade near Maybeury. A late winter delayed the blooming of trees, but the first ... (more)

NS' Lehigh Valley and original Norfolk Southern heritage ES44AC's assist eastbound loads over Elkhorn grade through the interlocking at Maybeury. New signals have been placed into service along a ... (more)

Shoving hard on the rear of eastbound loads, No. 8102 passes through the community of Maybeury, W.Va., while en-route to Bluefield with a heavy coal drag.