NS 73A squeezes out of the exit of the man made and much smaller of the two tunnels at Natural Tunnel State Park with empties enroute to Andover, VA.

Just back from its trip as 721 with empties, this train has been reset and is ready to be loaded and head back out as 722 ECP train.

With its inbound crew just taken away to the hotel, NS 22A sits at the yard office waiting for a crew to head out of Bristol.

After a broken rail at Montgomery held 22A for a few hours at Roanoke, the crew are finally coasting their last couple miles to the yard at Bristol.

NS V19 heads back across town down the middle of Scott St. on old rails which used to connect the Southern Ry yard to the NW yard.

A friendly conductor throws up a wave as U5K makes a run into the NS Norton Yard.

This old SD40-2 started life on the road as SOU 3315 but now spends time working locals around the NS system and today has a much needed day off as it sits idle on New Years Eve.

NS 056 cuts through the thick fog of Bristol with two KCS 70MAC's leading this military train of DODX flats full of army trucks and containers

The SB Orange line metro on the left bound for Vienna, VA and the NB Orange line metro bound for New Carrollton, MD on the right make a stop at the Smithsonian Station.

NS 8871 sits idle on the point of train 112 ready for a crew to double up the train and move West as soon as normal operations resume after the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Country music singer Kathy Mattea rides this years Santa Train as she tries to get a stuffed animal to the little girl pictured during a stop at Dante.

CSX Q696 is Southbound lead by 1 of only 19 SD70ACe units on the roster.

P905 holds the main as this empty coal train waits as Santa has just finished throwing toys to the children of the Appalachian reigon and is now bound for Kingsport to anchor the Christmas Parade.

The 66th running of the CSX Santa Train is well into it's 110 mile journey as it rounds Osborne's Curve by an old Good Gulf fuel stop.

The 2008 CSX Santa Train rounds the corner at Dante in preparation for the next stop.