Loaded coal for the Asheville District just received a recrew in Thomasville and accelerates out of town.

Norfolk Southern train 744 crosses the Catawba River at Catawba, NC and soon the crew will swap ends and use the DPU power to take the train into the plant.

The rear end of loaded coal train NS 744 rushes past westbound NS 821 that sits in the siding at control point Kumis on the Whitethorne Distirct. 1036 is the ACe that was in the derailment with NS... (more)

A sd70ACe muscles a heavy coal train up the grade past the Durafiber plant at the 9.8 milepost signal.

A ET44AC leads a loaded coal train up the hill by a couple of wood chip cars in the siding at Lil Shavers warehouse on its way to Marshal Steam plant.

Rolling under the Southern Railway era intermediates at Lowell. 744 is lugging it's Belmont coal loads up grade towards Gastonia. Where it will run around and head back to Belmont. There is a sayi... (more)

The Lackawanna heritage unit serves as read DPU on loaded coal train NS 744 as it rolls through Bradshaw, Va on the Whitethorne district.

NS loaded coal train 744 entering the ex-Southern mainline at CP Hurt in Altavista, Va.

A pair of older dash-9's lead NS 744 (loaded domestic coal) through Salem, Va just before Roanoke's South Yard.

The Blue Ridge Mountains dwarf the 100 loads of coal destined for Plant Marshall as two of Norfolk Southern's Dash 9's shove hard on the rear.

Loaded coal train No. 744 wraps around the sweeping curve at Glen Alpine, NC in the pouring rain with a duo of specially painted units in the lead.

Three specially painted units are visible as NS 744 navigates the Southern Loops in the mountains of North Carolina, hauling coal to plant Marshall in Sherills Ford, North Carolina.

Loaded Catawba man 744 winds its way east down the Old Fort Loops, seen here at Bruner's Cut near Graphite with the N&W Heritage and Blue Mane DC - AC motors working the head end, and the Jersey C... (more)

NS 744 sit's tied down at Gastonia waiting for a new crew to take the train to the Allan steam station in Belmont, NC. The locomotive leading is a brand new AC44C6M rebuild #4104.

The Monongahela heritage looks right at home hauling coal, albeit about 600 miles south of it's namesake line in PA. Catawba loads for Plant Marshall cross the French Broad river on a beautiful a... (more)