Support this website by joining the Silver Rails TrainWeb Club for as little as $1 per month. Click here for info.



This website has been archived from TrainWeb.org/travelogue to TrainWeb.US/travelogue.

On the Rathole Division

Action on Norfolk Southern's Busy Main Line


Page 2 of 4

© 1999 Steve Barry steve@daylightimages.com

This section is divided into four pages to provide quick loading


We follow Norfolk Southern GP38AC 4131 and its train northward from King's Mountain and catch it at McKinney.

TT2806


Below Somerset, Kentucky, not far from the Tennessee state line, we hed into the mountains west of Tateville where three massive cuts are located. At the middle cut we see a northbound behind NS Dash 9-40CW 9391. The second track was installed in 1999 to eliminate one of the biggest bottelnecks on the entire Rathole.

TT2807


From the same bridge we look the other direction and see a southbound train of steel slabs in gondolas heading our direction with Dash9-44CW 9008 leading.

TT2808


Changing lenses, we see the train just before in passes under our highway overpass perch. This perspective shows just how massive this cut is.

TT2809


We move one bridge south and pick up a southbound double-stack train with NS GP50 7052 on the point.

TT2810


Click here for On the Rathole Division page 3

Return to On the Rathole Division page 1

Click here for more railroad photo essays


ad pos61 ad pos63
ad pos62 ad pos64



Support this website by joining the Silver Rails TrainWeb Club for as little as $1 per month. Click here for info.