Westbound Intermodal train 233 passes the CPL signals at Gate, which are leaning towards the Tug Fork and showing their wear. Leading 233 today is NS 1074, the Lackawanna Heritage unit.
Eastbound autorack train 272 passes the junction of the Lick Fork Branch at Thacker, which is now only used for MOW Storage.
Westbound empty grain train 51Q passes the stored coal hoppers in the center siding at Vulcan.
098 exits Hatfield Tunnel this morning, crossing back into West Virginia, with a single Dash 9 leading 5 ES44AC6's from GE in Erie, PA, bound for Norfolk to be exported to Roy Hill Australia.
18M passes by the signals at Stepptown, entering the middle of the 3 single track sections between Portsmouth and Bluefield.
With an ex-Conrail SD60I leading the way, mine run U12 returns into Williamson with a loaded coal train.
An ex-LMS C40-8W is on the point of 188, passing slowly through Naugatuck due to a 10 mph slow order.
With an SD60 leading, the NS Geometry train heads East through Rawl.
Eastbound freight 18M slowly passes through Rawl, having just left the yard at Williamson with a colorful consist.
The pushers on the 52V grain train are in Notch 8, shoving the heavy grain train into the yard at Bluefield.
Eastbound coal loads pass under the CPL Signal Bridges at Maybeury, in notch 8 nearing the summit of the Elkhorn Grade.
18M, with a very colorful lashup, passes through Chattaroy, about to hit a bottleneck ahead in Williamson.
U05 sits stopped just West of the signals at Borderland, waiting for the conductor to throw the switch to the middle track.
In one of the few pockets of sunshine on an otherwise dreary day, 861 passes through Nolan with an SD70 on the point.
Long term rerouted manifest train 170 has reached the West End of Track 2 in the North Yard at Williamson. The conductor has dismounted the train, and is applying handbrakes. Trailing is UP 1996, ... (more)
