past the SAL signal tower at Hermitage road in rchmond, va

7704 gives us a roster shot while working on pusher duty at fulton.

air fred is still attached and working away while the pusher shoves the N305 up the hill from fulton yard.

Q302 thunders up the hill at hermitage road just before the sun sets for the evening

H218 pushers are shoving hard on the rear of Q302

h218 pusher set from another angle

glint shot of the light on the side of the cab of the 440

same shot as before but wtih my polarizer on to limit glare

nice silhouet shot of unit 89 with the dark storm clouds in the south and east behind it

CSX never looked so good backdropped against the clouds with the sun hitting 89

loaded coal train with bran new ICXX hoppers sits at hermitage road waiting to go north

7493 ex CR. 6038 leads drag freight Q302 up the hill from Fulton yard to it's terminating point at acca yard.

another shot of Q302 at hermitage road

add 340 to thelist of DF repaints....

dark futured...blah!

today's lone pusher unit from fulton yard to help trains up the hill to west a wye

another shot of the coal trian passing by hermitage on his way to west a wye

UP sd70m sitting outside the acca shops

light engine move headed down to deepater terminal and south yard to pick up interchange.

T335 claws its' way up the hill from hermitage with dual gevo's for power. Kind of neat to see DC powered gevo's running a coal train instead of ac44's..

southbound facing unit of the H217 pusher set for trains going up the hill from fulton yard. This is a 'heavy' unit.

the pusher set shoves har don the rear of the T335 being lead by two gevo's.

shot of the dual gevo's powering this loaded coaler

northernmost facing engine of the H217 pusher pack

trailing unit on H218 pusher units.

loaded grain trails struggles up the hill behind a classic EMD lashup of a sd50 and a sd40-2

lead unit on H218 pushers for today..this unit will be trailing on a V877 leaving fulton tonight.

former BN unit was the trailer on the grainer up the hill at hermitage road.

unknown train stopped on the hill with CSXT 123 as the leader.

is the combo of 7736 and 4539

with 8704 and 7825 as a combo for power

heading for south a wye....

nice surprise on R415 is this DIT GP38-2

rear roster shot of the 595

H217-26 pushers pull the R410 down the hill from acca to fulton so it can continue it's journey westbound.

trailing unit on the H217-26 pushers that are pulling R410 down the hill to fulton while the road power spins the wye.

another shot of R415 passing hermitage road on it's way south

road power for R410 has finished flipping the wye and heads down to fulton behind it's train. The 5340 will lead westbound and the 4764 will lead northbound through NS territory.

twin AC44's pull R415 up the hill from fulton without pushers and around the wye to continue south to rocky mount.

1503 is trailing in the engine consist of 302 coming up the hill

makes easy work on the hill from fulton as he goes by me at hermitage road

unit is the second of 5 units on Q302...

is the last of the engine consist on 302...

behing big 6's 658 and 664, they took the entire train up the hill from fulton without needing pushers