A sunny December morning finds NS 118 thundering east through Salem, VA on the eastern end of the Christiansburg district.
Southbound by Attica Junction, NS 8033 leads a long container train south.
Eastbound mixed freight 36A rounds the curve and approaches the westbound signals adjacent to WABCO in Wilmerding, Pa.
As the early morning sun rises high enough to illuminate Tenn-Tom bridge, just north of Epes, Alabama, 219 rushes across the bridge with a trio of NS GE's leading the train towards Dallas, Texas.
NS 8033 works a loaded coal train across the massive bridge spanning the valley above the small community of Coopers just west of Bluefield.
