A nice, cool and crisp morning out at Elmont VA

It was time for me to do some Memorial Day weekend railfanning, so on the morning of May 25th, 2013, I decided to go up and get some trains at Elmont Road near Ashland, VA. It was a nice cool, and crisp morning, with temperatures somewhere in the upper 40's to lower 50's. 

Right as I arrived at Elmont Road, Amtrak Northeast Regional 82 called the DD just past Mountain Road and past my camera at 7:44 AM behind P42 177:

Shortly after Northeast Regional 82 announced on the scanner that it was stopping at Ashland, I heard Q034, a northbound intermodal (train w/ UPS, JB Hunt) on the scanner at Laurel, and passed the camera at 0755 with ES44AH 3045, ES40DC 5370, and CW44AC 465. This train marked my first time catching a 3000 series ES44AH on camera.

 At about 5 minutes after 8 AM, I got an email from one of the members of Yahoo's "Old Dominion Railfans" group about a late running northbound Auto Train, and at about 8:10, it passed by behind P40's 818 and 830:

 Amtrak had made a slight adjustment to the schedule for the next Northeast Regional train that I saw, changing its arrival time into Ashland to 8:38 AM rather than 8:48 AM. Northeast Regional 88 was the next train I saw, passing by Elmont Road behind P42 168, which I last saw at Elmont back in September 2010.

A few minutes after 9, I heard Q410, a northbound mixed frieght on the radio, but I was wondering why it was not calling the signals at Elmont. Shortly after, I heard a horn that I knew was coming from something OTHER than a GEVO. I finally got a southbound, as Q401-24 passed by the camera with two SD60M's in the lead- 8776 and 8785, switching from track 3 to track 2 (there is no track 1 on this line).
 
After Q401 passed, Q410 got the go-ahead from the BD Distpatcher up in Baltimore, and it switched from track 3 to track 2, behind ES40DC 5310, SD40-2, CW44AC 150, and ES44AH 978.

The last train I saw before heading home was southbound Amtrak Northeast Regional 67 (P077 on weekends), led by P42 160.