A southbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train traverses the famous “Rathole” at Mountain View, Tennessee, on May 16, 1994.

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A Norfolk Southern ballast train heads south at Keno, Kentucky, on the famous former Southern Railway “Rathole” line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. The short train even has a caboose on this humid and hot May 16, 1994, day.

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A northbound Norfolk Southern train crosses the Cumberland River at Burnside, Kentucky, on a hot and hazy August 23, 1992. On the point is NS No. 8596 which is a GE C39-8; and yes, the locomotive is operating facing forward, Norfolk Southern style!

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A Norfolk Southern coal train travels westbound east of Riverside, Virginia, on October 24, 1990.

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Everyone is probably sick to death of the NS Heritage locomotives, but NS No. 1067, the Reading heritage engine, is the first one I have seen in person. And this scheme is pretty cool, as seen in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 9, 2012.

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