NS 720 assembles a unit train as it pulls the first cut of Silversides out of the storage tracks located between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Note that the mid-train radio control car a... (more)
The motive power for a short NS 720 returns light to Andover Yard after setting its train off at Yuma. The South Fork of Powell River flows to the left; Little Stone Mountain looms in the backgrou... (more)
NS 720, loaded at Westmoreland Coal's Appalachia transloader, splits the signals at Harvey, Virginia. The train is destined to Duke Power's Belmont facility.
Slide scan of NS coal train 720 as it makes it's way down Saluda grade at MP35 [Melrose] The head end just past the run away track on the rear is P90 Pushers helping bring the train down the grade
Dedicated coal train waiting for green to enter Bristol yards. Plant in background is King Pharmaceuticals.
The DPUs on 720 shove the train uphill past the Wallace signal on the eastern edge of Bristol.
A pair of midtrain units and radio control car 905919 struggle upgrade east of Speers Ferry approaching Watkins.
NS 720 grinds upgrade through the Troublesome Creek valley a short distance east of Speers Ferry.
A combination of 4-axle and 6-axle power shoves NS 720 over Horton's Summit through Sunbright, Virginia.
A loaded NS unit train #720 pauses at Roaring Branch while the pushers are coupled to the rear at Appalachia. The short bridge crosses the ex-L&N's Corbin-Norton Cumberland Valley line.
The rear of the train is still crossing the TN river in the background as the head end smokes it up through town.
NS 720 Passing Parrot Ave Atlanta
NS 720 via trackage rights on CSX crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct
EMD power leads NS 720 east on the Pokey with 102 mtys at Thacker, WV.