With a thick frost clinging to the hill side, NS 745, posing as NS 81M curves through Artrip as it heads down the Clinch Valley toward Bluefield

As usual NS took a "wait and see" attitude toward AC motors. After they took the plunge this was the first shot I got of the new kids on the block leading a train, in this case empty hoppers retu... (more)

In April the future Monongahela heritage unit was "in civvies" just another pusher on a coal train heading east on the Clinch Valley Sub.

NS 7710 pulls into Cleveland for a crew change and to wait on pushers, for the trip to Bluefield loaded with export coal bound for Norfolk.