On a sunny saturday morning, TVRM's Southern Consolidation 630 takes off from Bristol Yard as part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam Program. This excursion, running eastbound under 060, is... (more)

NS 202 (Rossville, TN-Harrisburg, PA) a hot pig train take the diversion clear signal for (CP) Pierce and high tail it out of town of the West End Div.

NS 748 slides downhill through the Loops, seen here at Round Knob. Dynamics are howling and brake shoe smoke is filling the valley as three units hold their 14,000-ton loaded coal train at a stead... (more)

"Horsey and Flag"

NS 135 grinds up the Loops by Andrews Geyser on a beautiful spring afternoon. They are about 20 minutes into their run up the Loops and have about 20 more to go before topping the 2.2%, 16-mile gr... (more)

The helpers for 744 rode down the mountain to Old Fort to grab cars for Asheville on the run west. Here, they're seen busting out of the rock cut south of Jarrat's Tunnel. The crew commented how t... (more)

Loaded coal train 744 has just met westbound P87 and is underway at the east end of Old Fort. The Appalachian coal is at the bottom of the descent of the Appalachians down the famous Southern Loop... (more)

In perfect morning light, an eastbound coal train thunders upgrade at Ridgecrest. In less than a minute, the head end will begin the 16-mile descent to Old Fort down the 2.2% grade through the Loo... (more)

Literally seconds after the sun has risen over the mountains to the east, Asheville-Hickory local P87 trundles by at Ridgecrest with woodchip hoppers for Old Fort in tow.

64V passes under the Front Street bridge headed for the Rockport Yard

I found this interesting locomotive in Oliver yard, near the Bywater. Apparently this leaf was built out of a former GP9 and is now a "Green" genet locomotive. Interesting colors anyways...NS 583... (more)

'Dreamsicle' on the move on an early spring day in the Shenandoah Vallwy

Heritage Unit on Home Rails: SOU(NS) 8099K leads hotshot train 204 around on of the many super elevated curves along the original Southern Railway Crescent route.

Heritage Unit on Home Rails: After waking up to a heads up of NS 204 with SOU(NS) 8009K leading, I wasted no time gaining the 30 miles the train already had on me and finally caught it here... (more)