Norfolk Southern local mine run U47 is making a reverse move at NS control point Mudlick as the empty coal train enters the community of Stonega, VA. The train is in the process backing from An... (more)

Norfolk Southern U47 is backing out of the west end of the former Interstate Railroad yard at Andover, VA. The empty coal train will back from here to Wentz, VA where it will be loaded.

Norfolk Southern mine run U47 backs across Callahan Creek as it makes a reverse move out of the yard at Andover, VA toward the loader at Wentz, VA. The caboose is being used as a shoving platform... (more)

Norfolk Southern mine run U47 is stopped with a caboose on the "back leg" of the wye in Appalachia, VA. The caboose will be cut off here while the locomotive will couple up to an empty ... (more)

Norfolk Southern mine run U47 heads east across Kennedy Trestle near the community of Dwina between the towns of Coeburn and St. Paul, VA. The loaded coal train also has a J74 pusher on the rear ... (more)

A Norfolk Southern U47 crew pulls a loaded coal train that was loaded at Wentz, VA into downtown Appalachia, VA. Once the train clears the wye, a J74 pusher will pull the caboose that was used fo... (more)

NS U47 returns to Norton on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Glamorgan Branch. U47 retrieved 19 loads from Critical Fork on the ex-IRR's Dixiana Branch.

The cab on NS U47 rolls through Cane Patch on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 is pulling empties to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine Branch. The loaded hopper in ... (more)

After gathering the loads at Cane Patch, located on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch, the cab on NS U47 has just passed under the ex-L&N's CV Appalachia-Norton main at Sawmill, Va. The s... (more)

The cab on NS U47 rolls across the bridge over the ex-L&N's Cumberland Valley line at Appalachia.

A misty rain has fallen in Norton for much of the day. NS U47, with engineer C. R. Thomas at the controls, shuffles loads at the east end of Norton Yard. In fact, C. R. has needed to pull a short ... (more)

Conductor Bobby Kedron stands in the door of cab NS 555048 to protect the reverse move as cab hop U47 shoves past freshly painted cab NS 555065 and a few loads sitting in Esservile Scale Siding in... (more)

Conductor Mike Young keeps a lookout from the back porch of the cab as NS U47 rolls through Kent Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 is destined to the Roaring Fork loader,... (more)

Engineer Ray Thomas, occupying the right seat of NS 2575, slowly maneuvers U47 and its empties along the ex-IRR's Appalachia-Norton main and by the wye at Kent Junction. Once the rear of U47 clear... (more)

In late fall each year, Mother Nature decorates the mountains surrounding Kent Junction by a spectacular display of rust colored oak trees. Engineer C. R. Thomas will make a turn to the right, exi... (more)