Some of the last bit of color in the area could be found here near Friendship Road in Shawsville, VA. Manifest NS 14Z rushes down grade with an AC44C6M in charge.

The day’s last light shines down on Shawsville, VA as NS 19W fights up Christiansburg grade.

An ACe leads hopper train NS 811 west through control point Arthur in Shawsville.

An extra NS 271, NS i71, rushes east through Elliston with a pair of UP units, the leader being an EMD SD70M.

With a classic lash up of three dash 9's and a UP SD70M, NS 118 rumbles east through Elliston, VA.

Loaded coal train NS 822 thunders east along the Whitethorne district at control point Kumis.

NS 93Z rolls east along the straight away in Elliston with the original Norfolk Southern heritage unit in the lead.

8114 leads an empty ballast train east through Elliston, VA.

NS 93Z rolls east by mile post N281 in Shawsville, VA with NS 8114 showing the way.

The original Norfolk Southern heritage unit leads empty Herzog ballast train NS 93Z east through Shawsville at the Friendship Road crossing.

A very short intermodal rolls east against a setting sun in Austell, GA.

Short intermodal NS 219 sits tied down in Atlanta at Tillman.

UP 5309 rockets west through Austell, GA with a manifest.

A Union Pacific GE leads a westbound manifest through Mableton, GA.

BNSF 5401 brings an intermodal eastbound through Mableton, GA.