An empty coal train crosses the North Fork Clinch River on its run down the Clinch Valley from Bluefield

NS S21 has just come off the Clinch Valley District and snakes through Richlands making its way up the Big Creek Branch towards Dismal Yard

Finishing up with the floodgates. After a washout that crippled the artery of coal from the coalfields of Southwest Pennsylvania, traffic is non stop on the NS Mon Line. N21 pulls loads north ... (more)

The sun begins to set on a cool September evening in the Appalachian mountains while a loaded coal train enters the yard for a crew change after tackling the steep grades of Norfolk Southern's Poc... (more)

An empty coal train rolls past the approach signal north of Richlands,VA on the Big Creek Branch.

Norfolk Southern train S21 is northbound on the Big Creek Branch passing through the small junction at Lark a few miles north of Richlands,VA.

A pair of GE's pull over William Street on a former Erie Railroad bridge with wetsbound intermodal train 23K as they work the intermodal yard in Buffalo, New York. Concrete work was recently compl... (more)

A tier 4 gevo leads NS 23G down grade in Shawsville, Va.

As darkness begins to settle in, coal loads still come out of the coal fields of Southwest PA and through the Mon Valley. N21 heads North through the little river town of Besco, PA.

The dark streets of West Brownsville come alive as N21 heads north through town on a very misty and rainy evening.

After a repair to a washout on the Mon Line, an endless parade of coal loads and empties go up and down the NS Mon Line at a frequency I've never witnessed before. N21 heads north through the doub... (more)

With almost 13 inches of snow on the ground, NS 3628 leads 398 east into Hannibal on NS's Springfield/Hannibal District.

NS 3628 gleams in the sunshine in Linden, N.J. For the past few weeks this Tier IV GEVO has been assigned as the Phillips 66 switcher, assembling empty oil trains.

After a crew change NS 195 departs Bluefield to head west over the Pokey.

After leaving Norris Yard in Irondale, Alabama the previous day and racing towards Atlanta overnight, M54 splits through a very empty yard at Gainesville, with one of the company's brand new GE ET... (more)