After loading at the single track tipple on the Dan's Branch line, NS C40-9W No. 9200 idles on the spur adjacent to NS' Eckman Yard.
As the idling exhaust of two C40-9W's silhouettes the single car loader at Dan's Branch industrial track, two mining officials perform a physical inspection of the empty train prior to its loading... (more)
A Norfolk Southern coal train creeps forward as it gets loaded with at the Eckman coal loadout in West Virginia.
NS' Lehigh Valley and original Norfolk Southern heritage ES44AC's assist an eastbound loaded grain train, NS 40V east from Eckman Yard toward Bluefield, shoving across the impressive Norfolk & Wes... (more)
Passing the Eckman Yard, a pair of Farm based helpers push an NS 826 toward Bluefield, east on the former N&W mainline from Williamson to Bluefield. Serving as a small classification and staging y... (more)
Veteran conductor extraordinaire Dale Long throws the derail prior to U24 pulling out from Eckman Yard. The new, shiny AC power was just delivered and will soon join the other horseheads on the Po... (more)
New GE ES44AC units are arriving to the Pokey. Note the black number boards and right side front door. I like the black boards!
With 3 brand new ES44AC on the point, U24 patiently waits to leave Eckman Yard for Auville Yard with coal loads while a helper set consisting of two older ES44AC heads west on main 2 to get an eas... (more)
NS 17M splits the signals at Eckman on his way to Williamson on a beautiful afternoon in November.
A helper heads west over the Pokey as a shifter assembles a coal train in the background.
An old high hood still putting coal trains together in Eckman Yard after all these years. Better get them while you can.
NS 57N speeds by a coal train being built just below Eckman Yard.
17M heads west under the signal bridge on main 2 at Eckman skating the yard which is once again bustling with coal business.
The power on 51R nicely compliments the colors of fall at it heads west by the yard at Eckman.