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Viewing Album:  Dreary Pocahontas
 
By:George C Johnson
Dates:10/28/2006 - 10/29/2006
Album Info:Traveled to southern West Virginia specifically to watch Norfolk Southern freights running on the Pocahontas subdivision. Of course, it was cold, wet, and generally dreary--so much so, that I penned the following little ditty: To see a train, there must be rain // For when there's sun, likely there'll be none // except when one has camera not, then there'll always be alot! // O.K., I'm never going to make a living as a poet--or a photographer--but this is all for fun anyway. [GCJ]
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Track check
Title:  Track check
Description:  A NS crew checks the tracks.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/24/2006 1:35:37 PM
Location:  Kimball, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories:  Action
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Views:  199   Comments: 0
NS 8766
Title:  NS 8766
Description:  A load of empty coal cars heads west past what remains of the Kimball rail yard.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/24/2006 1:35:37 PM
Location:  Kimball, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8766(C40-9)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
Kimball Tunnel, east portal
Title:  Kimball Tunnel, east portal
Description:  Covered hoppers disappear into the east portal of the Kimball tunnel.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/24/2006 1:35:38 PM
Location:  Kimball, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories:  Action
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Views:  178   Comments: 0
Pink caboose
Title:  Pink caboose
Description:  A Norfolk & Western caboose on static display in Kimball, WV. I'm fairly certainly that it's original color was red.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/24/2006 1:35:39 PM
Location:  Kimball, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories:  Action
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Views:  280   Comments: 1
Passing through Kimball
Title:  Passing through Kimball
Description:  Same train as before, but without the deer carcass.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/24/2006 1:35:36 PM
Location:  Kimball, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8766(C40-9)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
UP 4874
Title:  UP 4874
Description:  He snuck up on me, so I only got 3/4s of him.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 8:46:59 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
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Locomotives:  UP 4874(SD70M)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
No trains, just scenery
Title:  No trains, just scenery
Description:  Churchland Road crossing near the Elkhorn Inn. This is what most of McDowell County looks like.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 8:46:59 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
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Views:  172   Comments: 0
Elkhorn Inn
Title:  Elkhorn Inn
Description:  A loaded eastbound coal drag. The Elkhorn Inn is the brick building on the right.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 8:47:00 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
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Locomotives:  NS 9278(C40-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
Eastbound coal
Title:  Eastbound coal
Description:  A loaded eastbound coal drag.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 8:47:01 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9278(C40-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W)
Views:  514   Comments: 0
Pretty tree
Title:  Pretty tree
Description:  One of the few times the sun tried to come out while I was in McDowell County. The remaining fall color provides a pleasant backdrop to action on the Pocahontas subdivision.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 8:46:58 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
Elvis has left the building...
Title:  Elvis has left the building...
Description:  Elvis was last seen riding the rails in McDowell County, West Virginia. Submission #300.
Photo Date:  10/29/2006  Upload Date: 12/27/2006 9:02:18 PM
Location:  Landgraff, WV
Author:  George C Johnson
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Views:  183   Comments: 0

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