Fine day for moving through the SW Virginia countryside.
A nice pair of spartan cab locomotives, one GE and one EMD, lead autorack train 272 past one of the many N&W CPL's on this line. Just behind me, the train will duck into Roderfield tunnel.
Saturday evening Herzog ballast train streaks through Knights on a southbound run.
NS 38Q pulls away from the Bristol yard office with an eight unit consist that includes 5 EMDs.
234 passes through the Mound St crossing in Circleville.
Northbound coal empties slows to meet a southbound in the Farragut siding.
A short 33K heads west past Bethlehem Steel
Eastbound 8777 leads NS 50K back into daylight and through the Williamson floodwall at Mingo Tunnel on the Pokey Division.