Norfolk Southern train U45 is diverging off of the Clinch Valley mainline onto the Big Toms Creek Branch in downtown Coeburn, VA. The empty coal train is headed to Toms Creek at the end of the br... (more)
Norfolk Southern train U45 is moving west at Coeburn, VA. The empty coal train is headed to Toms Creek, VA on the Big Toms Creek Branch for flood loading. In a few minutes, the train will be lea... (more)
NS U45 is backing through the Bondtown community of the town of Coeburn, VA on the Big Toms Creek Branch. The empty coal train will be flood loaded at the end of the branch.
The conductor of NS U45 rides on the platform of the caboose as the empty coal train makes a reverse move off of the Clinch Valley mainline and onto the Big Toms Creek Branch. The train is about ... (more)
With dynamics howling and brake smoke rising, U45 brings 105 loads of Southwest Virginia's finest coal across the massive Big Lawson Trestle located just east of Coeburn, VA on the NS Clinch Valle... (more)
In early morning sunlight, train no. U45 enters the Clinch Valley main running long hood forward at Coeburn, Va. The train has just loaded at Alpha's Toms Creek Prep Plant and will run to Carbo wh... (more)
A set of five GE units pull high onto the mainline at Spring to run around their empty coal train in the siding. After running around to the east end of the siding at Tacoma the train will head to... (more)