The sun has just crested the top of the mountains in the Shenandoah Valley at Stuarts Draft as NS 15T makes every bit of track speed enroute for Roanoke on its way to Alabama.

Southern painted NS SD40 No. 3170 leads E14, relief for P94, south through Thomasville, NC on a comfortable April night. This was such a treat to see on the high iron of the Piedmont in 2016.