Eastman Loads at Olinger
Spring has sprung in Southwest Virginia. CSX C090-22 is rolling northbound along the former Louisville and Nashville Cumberland Valley Subdivision at the classic location of Olinger. Two GE locomotives have 45 loads of Appalachian coal on the drawbars for the massive Eastman Chemical Coal Gas plant in Kingsport, Tennessee. A few miles up the line from here they'll take a diverging clear (after a significant wait involving escaped prisoners) onto the Norfolk Southern Appalachia District for the run into Kingsport. These Eastman runs are the lifeblood of the former Cumberland Valley main east of the once bustling terminal of Loyall, Kentucky. Without these runs the rails here would largely lay silent, save for the occasional load that takes the back door through Kingsport. After a few weeks of running at night it was great to catch this guy running in daylight on a beautiful spring day in Appalachia.
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Eastman Loads at Olinger
Spring has sprung in Southwest Virginia. CSX C090-22 is rolling northbound along the former Louisville and Nashville Cumberland Valley Subdivision at the classic location of Olinger. Two GE locomotives have 45 loads of Appalachian coal on the drawbars for the massive Eastman Chemical Coal Gas plant in Kingsport, Tennessee. A few miles up the line from here they'll take a diverging clear (after a significant wait involving escaped prisoners) onto the Norfolk Southern Appalachia District for the run into Kingsport. These Eastman runs are the lifeblood of the former Cumberland Valley main east of the once bustling terminal of Loyall, Kentucky. Without these runs the rails here would largely lay silent, save for the occasional load that takes the back door through Kingsport. After a few weeks of running at night it was great to catch this guy running in daylight on a beautiful spring day in Appalachia.
Thanks for looking!