Norfolk Southern train 27A crosses the Potomac from Maryland into West Virginia southbound on the NS Hagerstown District.

Distributed power units (DPU) shove on the rear of Duke Progress Energy empty coal hopper train 781 (Mayo Plant, NC - Shire Oaks, PA).

Harkening back to my youth, Chicago-Baltimore intermodal 24M is all pigs & single stacks due to height restrictions in the East.

NS 15T clears the signals at Vaughn on a cold spring afternoon in the Shenandoah Valley. #716

NS 15T comes south after 18T and 227 went north out of the siding at Success. #716

With branches hanging from the front truck and rear handrail, Columbus, OH-Jacksonville, FL/FEC train 229 has been plowing more trees than snow over Braswell Mountain. 229 is also providing taxi ... (more)

A late NS #229 is nearing Atlanta,GA as it passes a tied down Scherer coal train the morning after a late Autumn snowstorm that dropped over a foot of snow.

A coal train sits in the middle track awaiting a re-crew.

NS 8029 sits on the siding at Duncan, working today as DPU on NS 23G, with snow-covered farmland painting the background.

Ready to depart for Knoxville during a brief respite between snowstorms.

Shoving on the rear with a pair of AC helpers, eastbound Southern West Virginia coal loads make their assault over the N&W main through Keystone, and points east with a destination of Lambert's Po... (more)

As black diamond loads roll east along the N&W main, a pair of AC helpers shove on the rear, assisting the train from Davy to Farm, and points east toward Bluefield.

A set of helpers assist an eastbound coal train across the Bluestone Branch at Coopers.