Although CSX power is frequently seen on NS rails between Big Stone Gap, Va. and Frisco, Tenn. via NS trackage rights, it's unusual to see CSX power on the ex-Interstate Railroad's mine runs. On a... (more)

Westbound mixed freight 13G rolls through Cassandra, Pa.

Q03 splits the signals at Oreton on the ex-Southern Railway's Appalachia Division.

The Virginian heritage unit is quite attractive even in a light drizzle. Eastbound coal train 76N approaches Coeburn, Va.

The local out of Pitcairn Yard rolls eastbound through Larimer, Pa.

A CSX coal train, running on NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Va. and Frisco, Tenn., rolls through Irondale, located a short distance east of Big Stone Gap.

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)

The westbound Pennsylvanian splits the signals at Wegley, Pa.

Westbound trailer train 21M exits the cut at Wegley, Pa.

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)

Eastbound NS 78G approaches the crossing and double track at Jasper, Va.

734's massive plume of gray smoke blocks out the sunlight as well as the majority of the area to the side and rear. Hopefully, no biker or jogger on the adjacent trail is enveloped in the smoke.

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)

NS 607 grinds upgrade through Oreton, Va. on ex-Southern Railway Appalachia Division rails.

A pair of freshly painted SD40E's lead an empty ballast train through the Sheridan Terrace section of Irwin, Pa.