Black Friday tends to conjure images of people trampling each other at the mall. You won't catch me anywhere near that nonsense. I chose instead to spend the day after Thanksgiving with the black iron horses of NS.
This is NS 13T heading eastbound on the Southern Tier Mainline:
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02546.jpg&hash=a7f815bd28124da155f7ffb9b753397f24355be2) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02546.jpg.html)
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02551.jpg&hash=8aceffd4025e149cfa5bfaf13753d656f6989e66) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02551.jpg.html)
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02563.jpg&hash=89033972f0a35adb4ff117054534809aa924f72b) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02563.jpg.html)
All photos in this post were taken by me Friday 11/27/2014 at the Hammond Street crossing in Big Flats, NY.
NS hoppers loaded with ties from a recent rehab project on the Tier:
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02569.jpg&hash=1ae16b71127b8c54950bc570913174dac5ed7ebb) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02569.jpg.html)
Photo taken by me Friday 11/27/2014 in Rathbone, NY.
The Gang Mills yard job returns with a string of cars left out on the lead at the west end of the yard:
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02590.jpg&hash=392e74915b464790dbe00ce7dd45c0a7d97e1dc3) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02590.jpg.html)
This yard job had a combination of an SD40-2 and a GP38-2, a pairing I have also noticed elsewhere on NS:
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02598.jpg&hash=8f709ab1ea8e2faf771ab32dceda244b697c4cf2) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02598.jpg.html)
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02600.jpg&hash=fb267460a71bc78459882d4eca105d585a0c71ff) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02600.jpg.html)
NS/CP 39T arrived while the yard job passed under the Route 417 bridge. It can barely be seen behind the other string of freight cars.
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02614.jpg&hash=3e0a78ba0a42e2b349c545f680cdc413a4e974f5) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02614.jpg.html)
(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi857.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab139%2FErielackawanna%2F2014%2FNov%25202014%2F1128%2520NS%2520S%2520Tier%2FDSC02616.jpg&hash=9433de53fc402cb6f4745a83865341a64b0f7516) (http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/media/2014/Nov%202014/1128%20NS%20S%20Tier/DSC02616.jpg.html)
All photos in this post were taken by me Friday 11/28/2014 in Gang Mills, NY. Also seen but not photographed- NS 310 heading eastbound while I was driving on I-99/Route 15 just few miles from this location.