A September day comes to a close as a short CSX work train of side dump cars scoots along the James River near Big Island, Virginia.
CSXT leads Eastbound across farmland through Holegate Indiana keeping just ahead of the storm front coming in
CSX J29719, aka Cowan Helper #1, passes the Museum Station as it heads back to the helper pocket after shoving coal train N30314 up the ~2% grade up the North side of the Cumberland Escarpment.
V63920 CSXT 3463 west passes the Charlottesville Amtrak platform.
New Kids On The Block After giving CSX Q581-28 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) up to the top of the Cumberland Plateau, CSX J289-28 with a pair of ET44AH passes through the town of Cowan,... (more)
New Kids On The Block Sitting quietly at the helper pocket at Cowan,TN (MP J-86.8 SE Cowan) is CSX J298-28 with a pair of slightly clean 2 month old ET44AH motors. The ET44AH motors... (more)