After acquiring helpers at Farm, No. 826 jars the ground as it pops out of Hemphill No. 2 in notch 8, near Welch, W.Va., as a hint of afternoon sunlight tries to reach the tunnel portal.
An empty Norfolk Southern coal train rolls west through Welch, West Virginia about to enter the tunnel portal on a foggy March morning. From this vantage point you can see how all the homes cling ... (more)
Assisting eastbound coal loads toward Bluefield, NS' Southern and Erie heritage locomotives cross over the Tug Fork in downtown Welch, eastbound on the former N&W mainline.