Business as usual resumes after a late night snowstorm blanketed the Tug Valley. Coal led by a SD70M rolls upgrade and negotiates the sharp curve known as Ought One.
Doublestack train NS 233 had a pleasant suprise in the consist. Three Iowa, Chicago & Eastern SD40's! I assume they are being returned. They went east eariler this week on a ehtanol train.
At dusk a loaded coal drag crawls off the Buchanan Branch at Ought-One, WV. Another loaded coal drag waits it's turn to head east up the long, grueling grade. One must take care along this section... (more)