In the last ray of sunlight, NS 9944 leads a loaded coal train through the S-curve into downtown Fort Wayne.

The gray clouds suggest that more snow is in the forecast as NS 856 pauses at Falls Mills while pushers couple to the rear to aid in the assault of the grade approaching Bluefield Yard.

NS 856 exits the east portal of Cooper Tunnel at Bluestone, WV.

NS 1065 rolls west along Norfolk Southern's Chicago District after pausing briefly in Hobart, IN to pick up a new crew member.

The NS 9899 leads a train of coke around the bend, and behind the Scioto County Sheriff's Department, on the Columbus District.

A pair of fresh looking standard cabs lead 856 west on the Nickel Plate, passing the soon to be replaced bracket mast at the E.E. Miller City.

A westbound coke train passes by the farms along the Scioto River Valley north of Waverly.

You can see the entire length of the NS 856 loaded coke train all the way to the grain elevators of Edgerton as a pair of leasers, CEFX 3165 and HLCX 5982, leads its train westbound into Fort Wayn... (more)

A westbound coke train heads off of the single main, and down main two as it heads though Lunbeck.

Coke train NS 856 heads under the old NW cantilever signal at Waller St, as it begins it trip west on the Columbus District.

A GP38 still in Conrail paint sits on the siding, while coal train 856 heads west through Circleville.

Coal train NS 856 passes over State Route 159 with three engines works hard to climb the Kingston Hill, heading west on the Columbus District.

Westbound on the NS Columbus District, coke train NS 856 heads though the Pickaway County countryside, on a nice evening to be standing on this overpass dodging traffic.

The code line and Elevator mark this rural shot along the ex-NKP near Townwood as coal train 856 heads West into the evening sun.

The engineer of NS 856 looks over at the great scenery of tipped over buses and trucks sitting in the junkyard that sits on both sides of the Western Branch.