Let's Crack the Whip and Roll the Steel!! Words the yardmaster at Andrews Yard use to tell train crews when they depart. The crew of NS 786 cracked that whip hard to get 100 loads of Ten... (more)
Loaded Coal. The recently renewed NS Wateree coal train, headed for Dominion Energy South Carolina's Wateree Station, passes through Ridgeway, SC. Conductor Daniel Gibbs, a local railfan, ... (more)
A pair of AC44C6M's shove loaded coal train NS 786 over Coopers trestle in Bramwell, Wv.
NS 768 rolls east through Switchback, Wv.
NS 768 heads eastbound over Coopers trestle on the Pocahontas district.
Loaded coal train NS 768 rolls east through Northfork, Wv.
NS 786 prepares to take a diverging signal from the Charlotte District mainline to the R-line to Columbia at Charlotte Junction.
Current and former Union Pacific EMD power brings a loaded coal train eastbound into Salisbury on a muggy August morning. With the current trend of railroads attempting to "streamline" t... (more)
NS #9339 leads four units with a Wateree, SC bound coal train departing Asheville, NC. These trains typically run with 3x3 DPU set up, but the recent power shortage has NS using a different set-u... (more)
NS #9364 leads westbound hopper train 786 around the sweeping curve just west of Jarrett's Tunnel in the Old Fort Loops.
Having completed its climb out of Asheville, NS 786 slows as it passes the sight of the former Ridgecrest, NC depot.
NS #7597 leads a Wateree, SC bound coal train past the classic southern milepost sign at MP S130 near Swannanoa, NC.
NS #7597 leads Wateree, SC bound coal train 786 as it approaches Ridgecrest, NC.
