Running Southern Style, 7008 comes to a slow stop near Appalachia running long hood forward with fresh loads from Pigeon Creek Processing in Wentz.
NS B32-8 #3546 and the Westmoreland Coal "Dump Train" at Appalachia, VA in Feb. 1992.
NS 9361 with Engineer Funk at the controls backs around the wye to hook up to 45 coal loads to take back to Norton Yard. Engine 9361 at one time was side swiped while in BNSF territory and the num... (more)
NS 2756 is idling by its self waiting on the Shop Man from Andover. 2756 was having power loading problems.
How can anything be more fitting on 9/11 than a NS coal train in front of Appalachia Fire Dept under the American Flag.
U48 has just dropped its caboose and grabbed a new EOT for the loaded coal train's trip back to Norton in front of the empty 745 unit train and at some point later NS 3233 work train 92R will also... (more)
NS U48 is shoving it's empty coal train to Alpha coal company's Wentz coal load out in Stonega, Va.
On the left, NS U48 works upgrade out of Appalachia with an empty Duke Power train in tow as they continue toward Norton on the former Interstate Main. On the right, U57 has just completed loadin... (more)
Tied down on the night before it's big guest appearance for the Railroad Day at Natural Tunnel State Park, NS First Responders SD60E 911 sits in Appalachia Yard next to a string of empty hoppers.
NS 2756 switches a cut of coal cars long hood forward just as night begins to fall near Hill's Fuels coal yard just outside of Andover Yard.
The crew is pulling down the main to prepare for a shove of empties to Paragon for flood loading.
NS Erie Unit in the lead heading down behind town of Appalachia.
NS 2617 Shoves a train up on to the old L&N Main, now know as the Paragon Track.
NS U48 is shoving there train through the middle of the small coal town of Appalachia Virginia.
NS U49, with engineer Danny Fisher and conductor Harold Yearwood, took over an empty hopper train at Westmoreland's idled transloader and slowly rolls through Appalachia destined for loading at Pa... (more)