It's a cold and cloudy December afternoon as NS hotshot intermodal 27A rolls over the Potomac from Maryland into West Virginia southbound on the NS Hagerstown District.
A pair of ES44AC locomotives, including the Monongahela Railway heritage unit, as rear distributed power.
A westbound empty auto rack train bound for Illinois comes round the bend at control point NE over new rails following the January 5th derailment. Five of the hopper cars involved can still be see... (more)
NS U52 crosses Mudlick Creek at Osaka on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Roda Branch. The crew has picked up 34 "yellow ball" loads at Roda and will gather an additional 32 loads at Prescot... (more)
NS 8036 (GE ES44AC) and NS 1173 (EMD SD70ACe) are shoving a stack train off the Garden State Secondary and into Norfolk Southern's E-Rail intermodal terminal.
NS C30-7 8036 resting at Carbo, VA || Feb. 1987
Crossing the 100+ year old bridge on a warm winter afternoon, NS 8036 moves a slowing speed.
NS U52 slowly rolls over Mudlick Creek at the upper end of Roda. The crew has picked up 34 snow covered "yellow ball" loads at Roda and will continue eastward and pick up another 32 "yellow balls"... (more)