After stopping and restarting the lead unit (8991), NS 204 is huffing & puffing its way through the plant here at Mount Airy.
NS 729, a loaded coal drag, creeps through the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard as it negotiates the steepest grade on the ex-IRR's main line, the track between Dorchester Junction and the cre... (more)
SB flies past the ADM grain complex.
Today's 187, with 140 cars and just shy of 10,000 tons just got a clear at the P317.9 to indicate that the interlocking with the West Point Route is lined for their movement.
NS 187 rumbles across a bridge originally built by the Central of Georgia. If you look close above the safety marker on the right abutment, you can see the remnants of the old CofG logo.
NS 8991 leads a trio of C40-9W's south in the wrong direction as the crew will turn the power at N.Chelmsford. The trees are coated with an ice layer that brought many trees down creating outages... (more)
17Q knocks the "limited clear" signal down as a very sudden thick fog sets in! This scene was clear ten minutes prior when I was setting up for this shot.
Yarding a train
Minutes before the sun disappears this westbound peaks through the shade caused by the neighboring trees.
