NS U48 makes its way through the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard and with diverge off the ex-IRR main into the ex-N&W's Norton Yard to place its loads. The NS cab rests on ex-IRR No. 2 yard t... (more)

U48's motive power has just cleared the north wye switch at Kent Junction and serves as a pusher to shove empties along the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch to Cumberland River Coal's loader... (more)

NS U48, crewed by engineer Delmer Lester, brakeman Leroy Williams and conductor Roy Mellon, rolls light across the bridge over the Guest River and the ex-N&W CV line at Ramsey. U48 has just finish... (more)

NS U48 sports a trio of visiting BNSF units as it loads at Cumberland River Coal's facility at Whitfield, located about a mile south of Pardee, on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch.

Mine run U48 approaches the Route 620 road crossing on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Dixiana Branch. U48 will swap empties for loads at the Critical Fork loader at Dixiana.

The cab on NS U48 crosses Roaring Fork Creek between Roaring Fork and Kent Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch.

NS U48 gathers 35 loads at Glamorgan at the end of the ex-Interstate Railroad's Glamorgan Branch. U48 had already worked Hood (Norton) and Critical Fork (Dixiana Branch). Engineer Delmer Lester an... (more)

NS U48, an ex-Interstate Railroad mine run, turns on the wye at Appalachia on NS's Clinch Valley Extension. After turning, U48 will shove 5 empties along the ex-IRR's Appalachia-Norton main line t... (more)

NS U48 with a new ac conversion in standard paint backs the empty Duke power train thru the tight confines of the small community of Stonega (railroad name Wentz)

NS U48 with a new ac conversion in standard paint backs the empty Duke power train thru Appalachia by the old L&N trestle which tops US 23

NS 8057 U48 empty coal local bound for Critical Fork in Dixiana, VA passes the remainder of its train that it will back into and take with them East to Norton and then up the Dixie Branch just to ... (more)

Bringing up the rear of NS U48 in Appalachia, VA is an NS heritage caboose (note the N&W "hamburger" logo on the caboose side). The train is headed east toward Norton, VA with 105 empty... (more)

NS u48 with coal loads from Wentz awaits a pusher crew so that the train may continue on with a patched UP/SP motor in the lead which is quiet unusual for Appalachia, VA.

Running Southern Style, 7008 comes to a slow stop near Appalachia running long hood forward with fresh loads from Pigeon Creek Processing in Wentz.