NS helper set J53 slides down the Elkhorn Grade at Maybeury as clouds block out the morning sunshine. The train is headed to Wilmore to assist a 758 up the grade later.
Working hard up the Elkhorn Grade, NS train 234 ducks under the Norfolk & Western signal bridge at the east end of the CP at Maybeury as the leaves in southern West Virginia reach fall peak.
Fall colors were stunning on the Pokey this year. Case in point as empty auto rack train 29W heads west out of Elkhorn Tunnel with a pair of EMD's at the helm.