Portrait of a Norfolk Southern Container Train.
Former Conrail Quality 6238, now CSX 7376, leads manifest Q373 at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Snow from the day before is about gone.
The shortest coal train I have ever photographed on the West Slope. Actually, this was a shopped car picked up earlier in the day at Cresson, Pennsylvania.
Earlier today 211 had a Conrail leader, now 112 showed up with a Conrail Blue leader too.
Flashback from 10 years ago and before! During the Conrail era, 211 was commonly powered by solid lash-up's of Conrail motors.
So close to the paint shop, but somehow has managed to hold on to its Conrail paint 9 years after the split
After meeting 203 at Berryville, Virginia, 12R gets all green signals to Vardo Yard in Hagerstown, Maryland.
DASHing through the snow. In a 4400 horsepower sleigh. Through the fields we go. Cruzin all the way. Get out of the way, here comes 203 with a bunny sniffer
The Cadilac of CSX's fleet, the SD50, leads tonnage train Q376 over the summit at "Hobbs" as snow changes to sleet.
With almost 7500 horsepower, this 8 car empty autorack train made incredible time climbing the wet and icy 10 mile grade west out of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
A crew van from Brunswick Terminal waits as the Q751 crew parks there power.
The engineer prepairs for a reverse move to store the stone cars on the "hill".
The conductor counts cars as the Runner of the Rock drops downgrade towards the quarry.
The Runner of the Rock enters the Shenandoah Sub at Harpers Ferry on the return trip to Millville Quarry with a string of empty Aggregate Hoppers
What a surprise an SD70M leader! No DASH 9 today on manifest 112. Third unit in the consist is NS/CR 6800.