2626 belches some smoke as the on board computer starts the engine.
The Pelican makes final stop at Bristol after an overnight trip from New York that began on the Penn Central, then ran on a portion of Southern Railway. If this train continued on to New Orleans i... (more)
Time to get out of Dodge --- 25N (waiting at Bristol signal) needs the main.
NS 2713 brings train 25N into Bristol at track speed toward a crew change.
NS 97Z rail train enters the yard on the siding in preparation to run around the train and head back East.
22A and 25N sit side by side in the Bristol Yard. It is rare to see two westbounds sitting next to each other in Bristol.
NS V19 waits at the rear of 722 while its conductor walks the 94 car train in the snow.
NS 25N rolls by 111 with an ex Conrail SD60I on the point.
Only 2 months old, NS 7702 battles rain and fog as a distributed power unit on loaded coal train 722 bound for Clover, VA. This unit has spent the past few weeks on NS 722 either leading or as a D... (more)
25N sits waiting for its turn while the 111 speeds past on the siding.
Lone GP awaits work orders while eastbound No. 111, with pipe loads stacked higher than auto rack cars, is in background.
922 tied down in the Bristol Yard with a GP60 for power.
A tied down train 15T is overtaken by NS V40, back at the Bristol Yard from working customers between Bristol and Marion.
The crew of NS 15T have less than 10 miles left on their train ride to Bristol, but another 150 in the taxi dead heading back home to Roanoke.
A rare appearance of 15T in the afternoon provides a chance to get a shot of it entering the Bristol Yard.