With the three AC44’s notched out with the hottest UPS train on the Piedmont Division, 212 smokes through the S Curves at Jamestown on the way north.

A new AC44C6M leads NS 823 westbound in Shawsville, Va.

A late afternoon southbound coal train approaches Stanley, Virginia with 4 engines up front. Recently NS has gone to a 2 + 2 arrangement so this setup caught me off guard.

An ancient GP38AC prepares to leave the small yard on the Lenor Branch to do MOW ditchwork. This won't be the only work on the main as nothing was moving on the mainline for hours.