After stopping for a Hot Box, the train had trouble starting again, lost a motor and had to drop 14 cars and a dead unit at Front Royal, VA.
Westward on the NS Norfolk District, approaching Crewe
A 2nd M2 in the consist.
ES40DC??? Was there a re-classification?
After a HU from TWL, Many virtually chased this train and its magnificent trio of locomotives through PA, MD and Virginia.
Westward, climbing the east slope of Ash Hill, passing ruins of days past.
You can see the wind speed by the distance the heat-shimmer varies from the stacks!
Westward down into and through Crozier Canyon