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NS 4822, named "Moving The Weight Of The World" in dedication to the NS employees, is seen leading the Reading Railroad heritage unit and the NS OCS fleet as it rolls through the small yard in Lexington, Ky. By dumb luck, we happened to be in Lexington for a few days for the National Mine Rescue Competition, and caught wind from my buddy Aiden Davis that this thing would be running. Even more so, upon a little railfan exploration, we found NS 911 tied down in the yard for local first responder training. Before heading home, we came back trackside and waited a good hour for the consist to roll through, framing a meet of many units of interest,

NS 8098 is tied down just north of chatta

NS 8098 is tied down to make way for a few northbounds. A few minutes later, a crew would arrive and take her into Chattanooga

SOU 6133 sits outside the Bob Julian Roundhouse preparing for a day of hauling museum guests and later put on a show for photographers on a night photo session

With the fall colors of Central Kentucky finally starting to poke through, a southbound NS manifest crosses the Kentucky River in beautiful Wilmore, Kentucky.

NS 189 heads south out of Rockwood, TN with a solo UP leader.

NS T45 crosses the Emory river while splitting the Harriman Junction signals

NS 196 splits the Kentucky Countryside in half with a trio of Norfolk Southern locomotives and 10k feet of manifest in tow

After being died down for at least 48 hours, NS 179 basks in the morning sunlight of Junction City, KY at CP Bowen with a NS WhiteFace Dash 9 trailing

TVRM's restored Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630, built in 1904, leads the NS New Royal Palm excursion train as it crosses over Mehring Way near downtown Cincinnati, inbound to Gest Street Yard behind Cincinnati Union Terminal to turn and service the train.

A Southbound Norfolk Southern Manifest (Presumably NS 179) knocks down CP Fayette on the CNO&TP after a snow downpour and kicking up snow on its way south