Shoving a coal train into the Buck steam plant spur.
PL97 backs into the Buck Steam plant at Five Row on a cold December morning.
.Turning power on the wye.
Local crew PL97 prepares to back loaded coal train 76N into Duke Power's Buck Steam Station on the edge of the Yadkin River
PL97 prepares to run around the wye, and then pull nb to Duke so the outbound 77K road crew can get on.
PL97 is shoving into the Duke Power lead to unload it's train at the Buck Steam Station
NS PL97 with a great lashup.
Empties from Duke Power's Buck Steam Station in Spencer, NC, head west for only one trainlength on the Asheville District. Soon the crew will back the train east around the south leg of the wye an... (more)
NS PL97 is backing his train around a big curve near Five Row.
Two new NS SD70M-2's and NS C40-9W push hard to get his coal train to the Buck steam plant lead.
Two new NS SD70M-2's and a NS C40-9W back a coal train into the buck steam plant.
A battered and worn ex-Southern bay window caboose helps the crew of PL97 protect the shove move into Duke Power's Buck Steam Station at Spencer, NC.
A Salisbury Switcher crew is in charge of a rapid discharge unit coal train backing down the mainline to Duke Power's Buck Steam Station at Spencer, NC. SP192, second in the consist, has been a r... (more)