Approximately at the VA/WV state line an SD50 is at the end of a string of power shoving on the rear of a large coal train. Interesting N&W had switched to short hood forward not long before the ... (more)
Helpers were usually added to trains at Farm or at Flat Top Yard, but the grade stiffened here and they really had to put "out their back into it" from here to the top of the grade in d... (more)
As if showing the newbies around, veteran ex N&W unit leads two new GP59s at the head of an intermodal train pulling the grade after crossing the Green River.
A westbound covered hopper train is heeling into the curve on the mainline as it heads through the many curves, hills and hollers that lead to Williamson.
Back before PSR, when this was a vibrant through route a former N&W celebrity throttles up to conquer the famous loops to the east. I will all end with SER, Super Efficient Railroading, in which ... (more)