Pushers add t.e. over the Powell River bridge and up the connection to NS amidst the haunting hues of autumn.

Loaded southbound passes the north house track switch at Big Stone Gap, and slows for a meet with a northbound.

CSX 401 drifts along on the rear of loaded coal train U352 as the train prepares to enter the Cadet yard limits prior to joining the NS mainline for a trackage rights trip to Frisco. Fall is here!

Southbound CSX loaded coal train rolling through the rural countryside at Strawberry Patch on the CV sub.

Westbound CSX on NS rights passes MofW box cars and camp cars for NS surfacing gang.

Empty GCCX tubs roll west from Erwin to Loyall across the connection from NS to CSX at Big Stone Gap.

Two sets of helpers side by side ready to return to Loyall

WB helpers pick up another set to return them to Loyall, KY

SR eastbound unit train, viewed from inside L&N's Callahan Nose Tunnel (a.k.a. "Dark" Tunnel). The L&N goes under here, then crosses Powell River and US 23.

NS 9828 leads an eastbound loaded coal train sitting on the mainline at Big Stone Gap while a westbound empty CSX hopper train rejoins CSX trackage after the run across the NS mainline from Frisco... (more)

A bright, blue leaser leads a westbound mty man at the Butcher's Fork bridge.

A Loyall-Norton Turn is headed for home behind a mix of EMD and Alco power.

All-Alco set of big and smaller power rolls northward through Big Stone Gap with a Corbin-bound manifest.

Westbound CSX photographed through the cab of an NS SD40-2 tied up on a work train.

Head brakeman on a n.b. CSX hopper train is ready to line his train in for a meet, while the train lays back to avoid blocking a grade crossing.