NS 78T exits Stock Creek Gorge and approaches Glenita; the Glenita signal is evident in the right background.

Northbound NS P90 blasts out of the dip at Liberty, SC. The Traber signals are in the background.

Northbound NS 212 rolls through Liberty, South Carolina. View is from the S. Peachtree Street highway bridge.

Northbound NS 154 blasts through Easley, SC shortly after sunrise on a beautiful spring morning. View is from the Route 8 highway bridge west of downtown Easley. A single unit, presumably a DPU, w... (more)

NS 770 rolls eastbound by the idled Tacoma Fuels loader at Tacoma, Virginia on ex-N&W rails.

A Yuma Turn, NS 607, traverses NS's much less impressive trestle over Copper Creek.

NS U48 gathers 35 loads at Glamorgan at the end of the ex-Interstate Railroad's Glamorgan Branch. U48 had already worked Hood (Norton) and Critical Fork (Dixiana Branch). Engineer Delmer Lester an... (more)

Light CSX pushers, running on NS trackage rights, wait for NS 607, a Yuma Turn, to pass at Watkins. The NS motive power is the manned pushers on NS 607.

Westbound NS U53, led by Conrail 5415, rolls out of a canopy of trees into the sunlight at ex-Interstate Railroad MP 13, also designated as JANE in association with Track Warrant Control (TWC) dis... (more)

Eastbound NS 585 crosses the short bridge over Roaring Fork Creek at Kent Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Appalachia-Norton main line. The markings stenciled on the right side of the brid... (more)

Two forms of transporting coal meet at the crossing between Cane Patch, Virginia and Roaring Fork, Virginia on ex-Interstate Railroad rails. NS U52 was loaded at Cumberland River Coal Company's lo... (more)

A CSX unit coal train running on NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Virginia and Frisco, Tennessee crosses Bootleg Trestle approaching Natural Tunnel.

Empty train Q04 rolls downgrade through the Baum Hollow section of East Stone Gap, Virginia.

Cab 555097 on Westmoreland Coal's Dump Train approaches the road crossing at Mudlick Junction (ex-Interstate Railroad) on a foggy southwest Virginia morning. The conductor riding the cab's back po... (more)

Westmoreland Coal's Dump Train unloads at Wentz. The train was sequentially unloaded a car at a time via a conveyor belt that ran the length of the train. The conveyor on the hill in the backgroun... (more)