4003 shoves NS 780 east through Salem, VA.

AC44C6M 4003 serves as rear DPU on NS 780 as it rolls east through Lafayette, VA on the Whitethorne district.

Norfolk Southern coal train 780 passing through the small town of Lithia, Virginia.

EMD SD70ACe leads NS 780 (loaded domestic coal) southbound through the CPL's at CP Stuarts Draft in Stuarts Draft, Va.

NS 780 thunders southbound through Buena Vista on the Shenendoah Valley line as it heads toward Roanoke, Va for a crew change.

An SD70ACe leads NS 780 southbound on the Shenendoah Valley line at CP Pkin in Vesuivius, Va.

It's early in the evening as coal loads head west to Mansfield as they pass a barn just east of Lucas on the NS Fort Wayne Line.

Eastbound 780 enters the West Portal of Welch Tunnel. The tunnel was one of many modified via notching for the Heartland Corridor Project between 2007 and 2010, which paved the way for double stac... (more)

Eastbound 780 is down to slightly above walking speed, rolling through Northfork with a heavy coal train in tow.

Eastbound 780 passes by the now closed AEP power plant at Glen Lyn with NS 8114, the original Norfolk Southern heritage unit, leading 100 PGNX loads.

Eastbound 780 passes through Lurich with NS 8114, the original Norfolk Southern heritage unit, leading 100 PGNX loads.

The engineer has the engines notched up, and the sanders on, as 781 rolls around the south-leg of the wye, just after swapping crews at Fulton St.

9337 leads a long train of black diamonds through Kannapolis

An ex-LMS blue unit leads Wateree coal train 780 past the now idle Cannon Plant #1 and the surrounding milll village.