PROTOTYPE
2016 - 2017
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Bluefield WV
25 September 2017
GE ES44AC #8078 awaits
its next turn in front of the Bluefield
Locomotive Shop building.
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Bluefield WV
25 September 2017
GE ES44AC #8078 and EMD
SD70ACe #1143 are both waiting to roll into
action on a sunny September afternoon as
Bluefield yard is once again bustling with
activity.
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Bluefield WV
25 September 2017
GE ES44AC #8013 is at
the refueling point along with two unidentified
locomotives as GE ES44DC #7656 is
stabled and ready to roll into action.
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Roanoke Va
23 September 2017
GE C44-9W #9268 leads
GE ES44-DC #7710 into Roanoke
with a train of empty coal hoppers in tow.
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Roanoke Va
23 September 2017
Originally assembled in 2009
by NS Juniata Locomotive Shop as an experimental
unit using the frame of former NS EMD GP38 #2911,
BP4
#999 is a unique battery powered switcher,
currently stored
and out of service.
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Roanoke
Va
23
May 2017
GE
C44-9W
#9051
and
GE
C40-8W #8344 pull their
train past the
Virginia
Museum of Transportation.
Video
of this scene
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Roanoke
Va
23
May 2017
The
Virginia Museum of
Transportation houses the
cab of SD440 #1594 as a
walk-in and hands-on
exhibit in the main
interior railroad
department hall.
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Bluefield WV
22 May 2017
NS GE SD70ACU #7248 (a former
Union Pacific SD9043MAC locomotive acquired by
Norfolk Southern in September 2014) and
GE ES44DC #7618 are revving up
and getting ready to pull out of Bluefield with a
train of autoracks, passing
GE ES44AC #8063 in the
background.
Video of
this scene
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Bluefield WV
22 May 2017
Bluefield's signatory
structure, the massive old concrete coaling
tower, sees an unidentified pair of NS
locomotives getting ready to pull their train of
empty coal hoppers out of the yard.
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Bluefield WV
22 May 2017
No doubt about the location
which is proudly proclaimed to onlookers as NS
EMD SD70ACe #1030 sits in front of the Bluefield
locomotive shop.
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Bluefield
WV
22
May 2017
NS GE C44-9W
#9469 is tied down at Bluefield
WV yard, just across from the
famous coaling tower which still
looms over the yard and
locomotive shop.
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Bristol
Va/Tn
21
May 2017
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| It's a wet
Sunday and NS GE ES44AC #8123, built in November 2012, is
tied down at the Eastern end of Bristol Yard in the
company of AAR M930 type NS caboose #555647, assigned to
Bristol for yard work at least since 2007 although it
does get around locally from time to time. Below is the
famous Bristol sign (note heavy duty mainline rail in the
foreground compared to the rails of the yard lead) and a
view across the Bristol station canopy looking East
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Dante
Va
24
October 2016
There
is zero activity at CSX's
Dante Yard, which is
filled with silence - and
long lines of stored
empty coal hoppers. Once
an important hub for
local coal operations on
the Clinchfield RR, CSX
as much as mothballed the
entire line from Elkhorn
City Ky to Kingsport Tn
in 2015.
Coal
traffic by rail in the US
reached its peak in 2008
with a monthly average of
625,000 carloads; by 2016
this was down to 340,000
a month. The visible
result on the former
Clinchfield RR: empty
coal hoppers were in
storage wherever there
was a siding.
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picked up a bit since and CSX runs a few trains on the
line again, but it is nowhere close to its former glory. |
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Roanoke Va
20 October 2016
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| Norfolk Southern SD70ACu
#7258, SD60E #6945 and SD70M-2 #2649 pass by the
Virginia Museum of Transportation and preserved Norfolk &
Western GP9 #521. Known as "Redbirds"
these general purpose locomotives replaced the
famous N&W Class J steam engines in passenger
train service. |
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
All images on this page are (c) Adrian Wymann
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