A pair of cabs (555030 and 555596) rest on the main line adjacent to Bruton Siding on ex-IRR trackage. In a short time, U48 will couple both cabs to empties and work Paramount.

U53 has taken a right hand turn at RF Junction off the Pardee Branch and onto Pine Branch on ex-IRR rails. The crew is destined to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine Branch.

The cab on NS U47 rolls through Cane Patch on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 is pulling empties to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine Branch. The loaded hopper in ... (more)

After gathering the loads at Cane Patch, located on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch, the cab on NS U47 has just passed under the ex-L&N's CV Appalachia-Norton main at Sawmill, Va. The s... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

U53 departed Andover Yard, rolled around the east leg of the Appalachia wye and waits on the main line while conductor Joe "Robbie" Robinson realigns and locks the wye switch for the mai... (more)

J43 begins their shove up the Delorme Branch, with the conductor riding the cab blowing the whistle for the KY-194 crossing, with its unique cantilever guarding.

The cab on NS U47 rolls across the bridge over the ex-L&N's Cumberland Valley line at Appalachia.

Conductor Mike Young (on ground) shows a brakeman trainee the finer points to uncoupling and securing a cab in the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Bound for Harrisburg, a westbound Conrail train rolls through Valley Junction in Reading, Pennsylvania. The train is diverging from the Reading Belt Line here at Valley Junction, and will join the... (more)

The Clinch River flows by as Copper Creek empties into the Clinch beneath Southern cab X549. The ex-Southern's much lower crossing of Copper Creek is dwarfed by the ex-Clinchfield's much more famo... (more)