Two new motors making a pusher set await service over the Dry Fork Branch. In a few minutes they'll begin pushing a coal drag just around the corner at Berwind, crawling all the way over the top t... (more)

A badly faded Dash 8 drifts out of Big Creek Gap and the Cumberland Mountains to the ridges and valleys of east TN.

Under threatening skies, rainbow colored ridges, and down to a literal crawl, pusher set J61 shoves hard uphill over the massive Trace Fork trestle enroute to Cedar Bluff. Undergoing tests with th... (more)

Norfolk Southern coal hoppers head west toward Williamson at dusk, with the old signals above standing guard. The signals will soon fall as many have along this rugged and remote stretch of the Po... (more)

Ah, Vivians Bottom. A worktrain ties down awaiting a crew change with a cut of ancient Erie Lackawana hoppers from a scene that could just as easily be from decades ago.

With heavy equipment from the Heartland Corridor project parked about, coal drag S0N crawls west out of Vaughn Tunnel. Work has progressed inside with the roof being raised and notched.

Grain train G796 needs no help today with three motors for the Duff Mountain grade. Good thing as the helper crew has just turned their motor and the helper equipment isn't cooperating.

With a splash of fall foliage thrown in, the CSX hill helper idles away at Chaska, awaiting another coal or grain drag for the mountain.

Passing a greaser along the curvy stretch thru Big Four, NS 185 heads west on a slow order.

NS 759 takes coal mtys to Hull for loading at Litwar Processing. Note the test drill holes above the portal for the Heartland Corridor project, which will soon raise the roof of the tunnel.

A pusher set on the rear of an odd minerun, NS S3G, shoves hard on the long trip up Elkhorn Grade.

Antler #2 has been completed as a result of the Heartland Corridor project. The shoulders have been notched and the ceiling has been raised. Compare to photo # 244810 for the progress made.

What keeps the trains running. Ribbon rail has just been layed between Wharncliffe and Cedar, with many welds inbetween the long slivers of new rail and hours of grinding having been completed.

A coal drag heading east exits Glen Alum tunnel, enroute to Iaeger Yard and more service up a remote branchline.

NS 57N speeds by a coal train being built just below Eckman Yard.