A catfish workhorse exits the east portal of the Glen Alum Tunnel. This scene will soon change when NS modifies the tunnel during the Heartland Corridor Project.
NS 18M exits the east portal of the Glen Alum tunnel, soon slated for major overhead clearance work.
Having just left a little slice of Pike County, KY, fast freight 18M hits WV soil again and the first rays of early morning sun in the Tug Fork Valley.
This time freight proved to be a real treat as an all UP lashup graces the NS Pocahontas Division rails.
Nothing rare here.. two GP15-1s, matching blue SD50s and matching can openner Dash-8s are lead by a, what else, a Dash 9.
18M exits Hatfield Tunnel, heading east in a sea of Fall colors on this early Oct. morning. Moments before, the fog was so thick the tunnels were barely visible.
After a stop to attach a pusher 18M rolls east past the old coal tower at Farm with an unknown coal train idling underneath
2 dash-9's lead 18m through Williamson.
NS 18M crossing the Yadkin River getting ready to back in at Duke.
NS 18M backing in at Duke.
NS 18M slowing down at Linwood which a pretty good lashup.
The class unit of the N&W GP38AC's leads 18M south through Greensboro. Very few GP38AC's are left. See January 2006 issue of TRAINS Magazine.
