NS 8099 West loaded coal No.798, Albers, ILLinois_
I actually lucked into an NS heritage unit operating on track of which it represents. Here the 8099 leads a loaded coal train toward East St Louis on the former Southern Ry western extension. The coal is taking a convoluted route west from a mine near Princeton, Indiana to East St Louis where it went north and east to Bellevue, Ohio where it was sent south and east to the tidewater port at Lambert's Point, Virginia.
NS 8099 West loaded coal No.798, Albers, ILLinois_
I actually lucked into an NS heritage unit operating on track of which it represents. Here the 8099 leads a loaded coal train toward East St Louis on the former Southern Ry western extension. The coal is taking a convoluted route west from a mine near Princeton, Indiana to East St Louis where it went north and east to Bellevue, Ohio where it was sent south and east to the tidewater port at Lambert's Point, Virginia.