A 60-car Norfolk Southern unit coal train of higher sulphur coal destined for the Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tennessee, loads at Red River Coal Company’s prep plant and loadout at Steer Branch/Dixiana, Virginia, on May 12, 2014. The NS crew fondly referred to this train as “Interstate Railroad U48.” As the train slowly creeps forward, coal is loaded, neatly “flat-topped” by the shape of the shoot/funnel.
