Norfolk Southern train U44 makes a caboose hop east through the community of Tacoma, Virginia.

Heading to Norton Yard.

On the day after Christmas, empty Norfolk Southern coal hopper train 80M approaches the Stone Mountain Road grade crossing in the community of Tacoma, Virginia. The westbound train will tie up in... (more)

Another load of black diamonds rolls through Southwest Virginia on this warm spring day. This is also along the fromer N&W Clinch Valley Main.

UP "Wings" lead an empty hopper train between Tacoma and Coeburn, Va. U44 is destined to Toms Creek, located on the Toms Creek Branch north of Coeburn, for loading.

NS 770 rolls eastbound by the idled Tacoma Fuels loader at Tacoma, Virginia on ex-N&W rails.

NS 745 has stopped at High Nob so he can give up his track and get permission to proceed to Carterton

Shoving hard on the rear of 744, Norfolk Southern's Virginian Heritage unit passes the Interstate Railroad's Clinch Valley connection as it makes its way west to Norton.

An alumnus of the Southern Railway leads an eastbound coal train around the track that now connects the old N&W main with what's left of the Interstate east of Norton. Fog cloaks the trees. An o... (more)

This photo, taken by the late Hank Stuart, Jr., was taken at Tacoma, VA, on the Interstate's main line from Norton to Miller Yard, VA. The two colorful RS-3s on this "Hill Crew" are handling a rou... (more)

With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS Norton Shifter U4N works eastbound at Tacoma with a short train of coal loads to be set out at the Tacoma Storage track t... (more)

A set of five GE units pull high onto the mainline at Spring to run around their empty coal train in the siding. After running around to the east end of the siding at Tacoma the train will head to... (more)

A long train of empty coal hoppers sits idle in the shadow of the Appalachians, awaiting its next move.

NS 9873 heads up a long string of empties at Spring as the sun thaws the overnight freeze.