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By:Troy Nolen
Dates:8/25/2013 - 9/2/2013
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CSX 3055
Title:  CSX 3055
Description:  A CSX empty coal train has just returned to CSX former L&N trackage in Big Stone Gap, VA and what is waiting for them? A banner test! This trainmaster out of Loyall, KY greeted the crew who executed their required stop perfectly.
Photo Date:  8/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/12/2013 8:10:26 PM
Location:  Big Stone Gap, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 3055(ES44AC-H)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
CSX 397
Title:  CSX 397
Description:  CSX AC4400 397 and SD70MAC 4818 bringing an empty coal train back to the coal fields of West Virginia on the former Clinchfild RR Copper Creek Viaduct near Clinchport, VA.
Photo Date:  8/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 1:03:10 PM
Location:  Clinchport, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 397(AC44CW) CSX 4818(SD70MAC)
Views:  169   Comments: 1
CSX 938
Title:  CSX 938
Description:  CSX ES44ACs 938 and 855 lead a loaded coal train over Copper Creek viaduct near Clinchport, VA on the former Clinchfield RR.
Photo Date:  8/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:44:52 PM
Location:  Clinchport, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 938(ES44AC-H) CSX 855(ES44AC-H)
Views:  190   Comments: 1
CSX 3055
Title:  CSX 3055
Description:  A brand new pair of CSX ES44AC's leading an empty freight near Clinchport, VA on the NS Appalachia District trackage rights headed back to home rails in Big Stone Gap, VA
Photo Date:  8/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/12/2013 8:27:17 PM
Location:  Clinchport, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 3055(ES44AC-H) CSX 3064(ES44AC-H)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
NS 9887
Title:  NS 9887
Description:  NS 9887 and 2 other CW40-9s lead an empty coal train through the countryside at Tito, VA while a farmer bales hay.
Photo Date:  8/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:27:05 PM
Location:  Tito, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9887(C40-9W)
Views:  102   Comments: 1
NS 1022
Title:  NS 1022
Description:  NS SD70ACe 1022 leads a loaded coal train and meets empty coal train led by NS 8968 at Switchback, WV
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 10:04:12 PM
Location:  Switchback, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1022(SD70ACe) NS 8968(C40-9W)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
NS 8932
Title:  NS 8932
Description:  NS CW40-9 8932 leads a mixed freight off the Pokey into Bluefield Yard.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:27:52 PM
Location:  Bluefield, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8932(C40-9W)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
NS 8932
Title:  NS 8932
Description:  NS CW40-9 8932 splits the intermediate signals with a mixed freight through Ada, WV. Second unit is a CSX ES44DC.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:40:37 PM
Location:  Ada, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8932(C40-9W)
Views:  129   Comments: 1
NS 8932
Title:  NS 8932
Description:  NS CW40-9 8932 leads a mixed freight through Ingleside, WV
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:39:40 PM
Location:  Ingleside, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8932(C40-9W)
Views:  130   Comments: 3
NS 8932
Title:  NS 8932
Description:  NS CW40-9 8932 with an Eastbound mixed freight crossing over from Main 2 to Main 1 at Oakvale, WV. Main 2 was out of service between P-D Junction and Lurich due to NS replacing a bridge just West of Glen Lyn. Trains were held due to work, and when they moved, they crept by at restricted speed on Main 1.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 10:00:07 PM
Location:  Oakvale, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8932(C40-9W)
Views:  134   Comments: 1
UP 7625
Title:  UP 7625
Description:  Fairly rare visitors to the NS Pokey are this pair of UP AC units with an NS SD60 and NS Dash9 leading NS 233 Intermodal stack train over Coopers viaduct in Coopers, WV. Track in the foreground is the abandoned N&W Bluestone Branch.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:53:56 PM
Location:  Coopers, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7625(ES44AC) UP 9676(C44-9W) NS 6767(SD60M) NS 8741(C40-8)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Twilight at Willowtown
Title:  Twilight at Willowtown
Description:  A Westbound NS empty coal train streaks through Willowtown, WV just after sunset while the CPLs display multiple aspects.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 10:05:06 PM
Location:  Willowtown, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Night
Locomotives: 
Views:  98   Comments: 0
NS 8932
Title:  NS 8932
Description:  NS Dash9 8932, a CSX ES44DC and an SD70M bring an Eastbound mixed freight around the power plant at Glen Lyn, VA while an SD40-2 with a work train sits in the siding. There was a 10mph slow order from P-D Junction to Lurich because of MOW work in the area.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:54:56 PM
Location:  Glen Lyn, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8932(C40-9W) NS 6131(SD40-2)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
NS 9864
Title:  NS 9864
Description:  NS CW40-9 8964 and an ex-Conrail CW40-8 bring Westbound Intermodal train 217 through the work limits in Glen Lyn, VA. There was a 10mph slow order from P-D Junction to Lurich because of MOW work in the area. NS was replacing a bridge just West of Glen Lyn and you can see a Crane lift a huge steel Girder off of a truck and will place it on a railroad flat car sitting on the siding.
Photo Date:  8/28/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:59:04 PM
Location:  Glen Lyn, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9864(C40-9W) NS 8315(C40-8W)
Views:  153   Comments: 0
NS 8103
Title:  NS 8103
Description:  N&W heritage unit NS 8103 heads back out to the Pokey for another day of pusher duty at Bluefield, VA.
Photo Date:  8/30/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:41:25 PM
Location:  Bluefield, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8103(ES44AC)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
NS 6110
Title:  NS 6110
Description:  Its not very often you see three SD40-2s leading a mainline freight in 2013, but heres NS train 39Q with NS 6110 and two others leaving the yard after making a pickup / set off in Radford, VA. Note the signal is lined for an eastbound movement on main 2 as soon as 39Q crosses over to main 1 at the next interlocking "JC" and clears another train will head East.
Photo Date:  8/30/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:46:12 PM
Location:  Radford, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6130(SD40-2) NS 6106(SD40-2)
Views:  268   Comments: 1
NS 8132
Title:  NS 8132
Description:  NS mixed freight train 189 led by ES44AC NS 8132 and a SD70 pass the freight depot in Christiansburg, VA
Photo Date:  8/30/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:47:11 PM
Location:  Christiansburg, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8132(ES44AC) NS 2531(SD70)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
NS 8103
Title:  NS 8103
Description:  NS ES44AC's 8103 and 8081 heading back to Farm to pick another pusher job
Photo Date:  8/30/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 10:06:04 PM
Location:  Bluestone, WV
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8103(ES44AC) NS 8081(ES44AC)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Sunrise in Wytheville, VA
Title:  Sunrise in Wytheville, VA
Description:  Just after sunrise at the West end of Wytheville siding, the signal is lined for an Eastbound main to main as a hawk looks for breakfast on one of the remaining sections of wired code line left on the former N&W Bristol line.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 12:58:42 PM
Location:  Wytheville, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  116   Comments: 0
NS 7538
Title:  NS 7538
Description:  NS ES40DC 7538 and 2 other units working hard and smoking it up as NS 23G, a Louisville to Norfolk Autorack, Doublestack and TOFC train grinds up the grade into Wytheville, VA not long after dawn. This is the West end of Wytheville siding.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:25:51 PM
Location:  Wytheville, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7538(ES40DC)
Views:  153   Comments: 2
NS 3286
Title:  NS 3286
Description:  Rebuilt NS SD40-2 with the "Admiral Cab" switching out a grain elevator in Rural Retreat, VA
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 9/24/2013 9:51:33 PM
Location:  Rural Retreat, VA
Author:  Troy Nolen
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 3286(SD40-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 0


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