NS 6324 leads NS local A25 through Tallapoosa, GA eastbound with the fall colors starting to come alive

Norfolk Southern local A25 heads eastbound through CP Baggett at Villa Rica, GA. with NS SD40E #6324 leading the way.

Norfolk Southern local A25 heads eastbound through Morgan, GA. with NS SD40E #6324 leading the way.

NS SD40E #6324 leads Local A25 eastbound through Bremen, GA. as they work customers along the East End to Douglasville before returning back west to Anniston, AL.

NS SD40E #6324 leads Local A25 eastbound through Waco, GA. as they work customers along the East End to Douglasville before returning back west to Anniston, AL.

NS SD40E #6324 leads Local A25 eastbound into Tallapoosa, GA. as they work customers along the East End to Douglasville before returning back west to Anniston, AL.

With a trio of EMD power led by SD40E 6324 NS A25 heads east as it arrives at Heflin Alabama. The 6324 was originally built as Conrail SD50 7000.

A pair of SD40E's help a westbound manifest descend down the West Slope of the Allegheny Mountains as it rolls through the rock cut at Cassandra on a pleasant early afternoon in April

A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E's help ease a coal train down the grade as it passes through the now removed PRR Position Light signals at MP 258 on the Pittsburgh Line.

Helpers push a westbound stack train past the closed Alto tower.

The helper on NS 20T slows the train to a stop to cut off and then head back west for another eastbound train. This view was taken from the 17th street overpass in town.

Two SD40Es lead train I1E west through Emsworth, PA. It's not a common sight to see two standard cab units leading an intermodal train these days.

A pair of SD40E pushers are in Run 8 as they shove a very slow moving eastbound coal drag through Lilly, Pa.

The race is on! Well, not quite. NS 20V, led by NS 6324, charges eastbound while the helpers on westbound NS 21Q roll into the scene to the right.

Assaulting the Alleghenies

With a 3 pack of helpers ahead, 25V begins its assault on the east slope out of Altoona. The lead unit began life as Conrail SD50 #6700 and is no stranger ... (more)