The local turn is a little overpowered today and running east in the morning, a good indications they “died on the law” somewhere last night.
Heeling into a curve, this intermodal is at the threshold to a suburb of the vast Tri Cities, VA/TN metropolis.
A shorter than usual train must have resulted in several DIT units on the front as the “gut” train rolls along just east of town. A foreign unit is very rare these days.
Blasting thru with a monster train. This one and it’s EB counterpart are all I catch some days due to delays resulting from acceptable slidings being 30-40 miles apart and the broken knuckles, ... (more)
Wow, two on the point of the hot “JB Hunt train”.
22A rounds the bend on the outskirts of Abingdon, Va.
NS V40, the Bristol/Rural Retreat turn, pulls into the siding at Abingdon to meet an eastbound on the return leg of their trip.
Looking huge and powerful a newly rebuilt unit storms thru our small town with a small train as the M of W equipment cowers on the siding.
A southbound freight passes the former Norfolk & Western depot at Abingdon. The house on the hill once housed railroad workers.
Late in the day the leader of the “Caitlyn” class roars through our small town headed for a crew change in Bristol.
Westbound intermodal with my first good shot of the new Tier 4s.
EB merchandise with a GEnder bender in late afternoon light
The Herzog Automated Conveyor Train has done it’s thing so the power is running to the other end to head back east.
The business end of Herzog’s Automated Conveyor Train. Similar in use to DumpTrain, the one uses a much different mechanical system.
Trailing a piece of plastic on the front truck of the lead unit, a huge consist on motive power roars thru town.
