The morning light shines on this special guest to the Pocahontas Division. This was a welcome site on a line dominated by coal trains.

With its 1st visit into the Southern West Virginia Coalfields, NS 951 has just backed out of the Pocahontas Yard, and switching over to the main for its trip east.

Having been coupled nose-to-nose with 4271, 4270 is moved onto the backshop turntable to be spotted and coupled with 4271 in back-to-back configuration.

While many railfans paid a lot of attention to the E8s running up and down the mountain, NS's own F9s sat outside the Juniata Shops all weekend mostly unnoticed. A 2.25-million candle flashlight h... (more)

The beautiful Norfolk Southern F9's 4270 and 4271 sit in front of the Juniata shops.

The OCS special highballs New Carlisle with a clear signal straight into Ashland Ave.

Almost like a PRR passenger train....

Not yet "ordinary" the NS OCS finally passes through Cleveland in nice light at 7:15 pm on her way to Rockport yard. It is now a full A-B-A with matching tuscan consist, a true anachronism of a pa... (more)

An eastbound stack train snuck up on me, making it a bit of a challenge to shoot the OCS.

At last light, the OCS backs down into Rockport where she will tie down for the night.

NS 4270 leads the OCS train NS 951 westbound across Front Street in Berea, Ohio enroute to Chicago

Running just a little late, the OCS glides by on its way to Cleveland where it will tie up in Rockport Yard for the night.

NS A-B-A F units lead 7 cars west to Chicago

NS 951 lays over in Latrobe, PA.