Norfolk Southern train 29G rolls downgrade into Welch, West Virginia with an increasingly rare standard cab C40-9 leading the train toward the next crew change in Williamson.
One of the most beautiful place to enjoy railfaning in my books has to be Bluefield as the yard sits just below the mountains this makes a good back drop for trains heading east out of Bluefield.
NS train 35J passes under the last remaining NYC style cantilever at CP 435 in South Bend.
NS 9965 leads 304-11 through CW and on towards Watkins Yard.
NS 147 climbs Erlanger hill with ease in Crescent Springs, KY.
On a wonderful June afternoon, Coke loads from Dismal roll West under the cantilever at Lester Fork with a tophat leader.
A C40-9 leads an intermodal west through Gary Indiana.
Westbound intermodal train 29G (Norfolk, VA to Detroit, MI) climbs the grade at Gumwood Lane in Wabun next to a freshly hayed farm field.
Catawba coal loads for Plant Marshall split the signals at Murphy Junction in Asheville on a beautiful late Winter morning.
Top hat unit 8854 brings NS 314 into Birmingham on a clear May morning as the most of the Magic City's skyscrapers are seen in one view.
Highball! Pt.2; Not long after pig train 213 passed southbound with C40-9 8827 in charge, hotshot northbound 212 rockets by Hackett Street, better known as "Five Row" under dynamic braking as t... (more)
1/40 handheld pan of NS 8827, one of NS's dwindling fleet of unique C40-9s.
Due to track work, NS 152 leaves under darkness for Macon with one of only a few remaining standard cab GE's left on the roster.
A rare catch these days... A standard cab Dash 9 leads hotshot 295 under the signals at Oakdale.
A Yuma Turn, NS 607, traverses NS's much less impressive trestle over Copper Creek.