Charles Town, WV 11/20/2012 - The shadows of passing freight cars in the distance create a ghostly image of Norfolk Southern's northbound 38Q along the NS "H-line" to Hagerstown. Amid grand old tr... (more)

NS local V87 hammers the diamond at Charles Town.

A trio of UP engines that led a second NS 202 north the previous day, return south leading Knoxville destined freight 37Q. The engines just rumbled over the NS/CSX diamond and is passing the Norfo... (more)

112 passes one of the last grain facilities along the west Virginia section of the H-Line.

Sweet late evening sunlight on a southbound stack train.

Bound for some place in the south, NS 4270 leading an OCS train pounds the diamond at Charles Town, West Virginia. This location is where NS's H-Line crosses over the Shenandoah Subdivision of CSX... (more)

Pounding the diamond at Charles Town, 11R with a Conrail leader climbs up out of the dip having just crossed the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision.

D791, bound for Brunswick, Maryland, passes by the westbound vintage B&O signal which protects CSX train movements over the NS H-line/CSX diamond.

Clear signal 30.4!

NS 112 with a former Conrail SD70 leader, pulls out of the diamond dip at Charles Town bound for Roanoke.

Earlier today 211 had a Conrail leader, now 112 showed up with a Conrail Blue leader too.

After meeting 203 at Berryville, Virginia, 12R gets all green signals to Vardo Yard in Hagerstown, Maryland.

What a surprise an SD70M leader! No DASH 9 today on manifest 112. Third unit in the consist is NS/CR 6800.

M1R, a second section of 11R, crosses CSX's Shenandoah Sub

10 minutes after NS manifest M1R crossed on the H-Line, D790 takes its turn on the diamond, heading for Winchester, Virginia, via the Shenandoah Sub.