Birmingham bound; Covenant College on top of Lookout Mountain in the background.
Tight fits and tight curves help define the Pokey in this remote area. Top Gons sit on the center siding awaiting their fate as an MTY coal train goes by.
An NS train with UP power passes by Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River as it heads from Memphis to Chattanooga.
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NS units 9439 NS 2716 & NS 9493 southbound over Green River Trestle between South Fork and Kings Mountain at MP 136
"Lamberts Point Yard and Piers, fastest and most efficent in the world." -Norfolk Southern
The sun begins to burn through the dense fog as a Norfolk Southern helper set tacks onto the hind end of a westbound coal drag about to depart from Cresson, PA.
A fairly short container train plods its way up the West Slope at Lilly. Traffic was slow due to 2 derailments on either side of the West Slope, one in Harrisburg and another near Johnstown. We we... (more)
NS-owned Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line SW1500 a long way from home switches industries along the Tennessee River near DeButts Yard in Chattanooga.
In the twilight of the setting moon, an empty Georgia Power/Plant Sherer train heads back to the Powder River Basin for another load.
An early morning eastbound NS train from Memphis passes by the site of "Camp Nickajack".
Southbound.
A Busy day at Oakdale, Tennessee
Another load of Powder River coal heads for Plant Scherer.
An NS catfish and 4 UP units lead an I-Modal north by Nickajack Lake. The wreath and cross mark the spot where a trespasser was struck and killed early one morning.
