Two C40-9s lead an empty coal train eastbound across Kennedy Trestle on the Clinch Valley District. Looks like 8878 could use the same treatment as 8767 has received.
Nothing says coal country like cabooses and Top Gons.
NS' Erie heritage SD70ACe works as the DPU on an empty Georgia Power coal train as it rolls through Tacoma on the outskirts of Coeburn, VA and passes by a work train's sharp looking NS caboose (#5... (more)
Its a rainy summer afternoon as mine run U5K with NS 8025-1065 struggles up the steep grade through Banner just a few miles east of Coeburn, VA with a long string of loaded NS system coal hoppers ... (more)
N&W Train 5, operating between Bluefield, W. Va. and Norton, Va., crosses trestle #1398 three miles from Coeburn, Va. in fall colors on Oct. 28, 1956. Class E2a 578 is one of two Pacific 4-6-2's... (more)
NS mine run U46 eases out of the Toms Creek load out and passes by the local little league field in Coeburn, VA with a freshly rebuilt SD60E leading.
A pair of NS ES44ACs lead a westbound empty Georgia Power hopper train slowing as it winds through Coeburn, VA on the NS Clinch Valley mainline before making a turn up the Toms Creek Branch for an... (more)
A unit coal train waits for a crew, after being loaded at Paramount Coals Toms Creek Lower Banner Mine in Coeburn, VA
Two trains, four different engines. D8-40CW 8451 and a D9-40CW make up a loaded coal train, while ES40DC 7710 and a SD70M-2 wait with empties to load out at Paramount Coal's Toms Creek prep plant ... (more)
A long line of empties and plenty of power, tied down at Tacoma
A unit coal train tied down after loading out at Paramount Coals Toms Creek facility in Coeburn, VA
NS 6616 with coal mtys, snakes its way through S curves in Coeburn, VA
This train has just been loaded out at Paramount Coal at Toms Creek and is ready to depart on this foggy day in the Appalachians.
Most unfortunate to be following an NS Coal Branch Line, only to stumble on a CSX Dash-8.
Eastbound coal
