Norfolk, VA - Louisville, KY stacks pass 'East Siding' in a dense fog

Union Pacific power brings NS grain train 54G by East Siding with 22A shoving on the rear

NS 28W navigates through the curves and dips at Laurel

NS 935 about to knock down Laurel on the NS K&O District.

T35 eases south back across the Clinch River while breaking down cars brought up from Knoxville by T34.

3308 and 3264 idle under the stars as T35's conductor releases hand-breaks on a cut of plastic hoppers.

3508, a former UP SD40-2 sits silently beside the K&O district, the unit will be fired up in the morning for use on train T12 out of Clinton, TN

With a thick fog still hanging around, NS ET44AC #3635 leads intermodal train 22A across the Clinch River in Clinton,TN on the K&0 District.

Cutting through the Appalachian country side heading south on the CSX KD Subdivision, is the CSX Executive train CSX P954-03 (Louisville,KY-Jacksonville,FL) pulled by a trio of F40PH-2s. The train... (more)

Winter has been long forgotten in the south, but on this day the high was 28 degrees and the snow still hasn't melted well into the afternoon.

NS 951 slowly rolls through the small yard in Clinton

Three SD40-2s shove hard on a loaded grain train through the quiet community of Laurel.

23G comes charging past the CP at East Siding. The crew has put the spurs to the locomotives, in order to get a good run at the heavy Chestnut Ridge grade just a couple miles ahead.

Northbound phosphate loads roll thru the countryside, just north of Dossett. The crew is making a run at the big hill, and the train's speed had increased significantly by the time the bottom end ... (more)

After shoving loaded grain train 56G over the hill into Powell, the power for northbound grain empties train 55G returns to Laurel to recouple to their train, and continue north.