With a little imagination, this could be Christmas Eve, 1957 in Rural Retreat, Virginia as O. Winston Link recorded his famous audio capturing the final days of N&W steam. The final edit of the re... (more)

Flanked on both sides by Christmas lights at Strasburg Rail Road’s East Strasburg station complex, Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 takes water at the water tank on December 18, 2021. Wishing a Merr... (more)

A very unique piece. The Strasburg Rail Road's ex Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 charges upgrade just east of the bridge over the "Pumpkinville Turnpike", hauling a vin... (more)

Classic Carpenters. From the west wall of the oldest cemetery in Lancaster County at Carpenters Crossing, we see a pair of groundskeepers watching the passage of a steam-powered mixed train... (more)

A westbound Norfolk & Western freight rolls through East Peoria in December 1983. The train is powered by EMD GP35 No. 1322 and EMD GP9 No. 662, both equipped with N&W’s standard high-short hood... (more)

A black and white photo of the famous Norfolk and Western 1218.

Waking up frosty East Strasburg. It's not even 7AM yet and the sleepy folks in Pennsylvania Dutch Country are getting a rather spectacular wake-up call as the last operational Norfolk & Wes... (more)

Four icons of 1960’s railroading, a GP40, a GP9, an RSD12, and an SD45 occupy the Norfolk & Western engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia.

An unlikely C30-7/T6 combination idles in the Norfolk & Western engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia.

Positioned at the engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia a Norfolk & Western RSD12 stands between a GP9 and an SD45.

A Norfolk & Western caboose has found its way to Conrail’s Allentown yard, most likely on a Delaware & Hudson train. Class C-9 caboose 557784 was built as Nickel Plate 784.

Steam equipped Wabash GP9 485 and Wabash E7A 1002 leads the Chicago to St. Louis N&W "Banner Blue" at Decatur, Illinois in November, 1965. From my collection, no photographer's name li... (more)

611 is passing the former Norfolk & Western East End Shops where she was built in May 1950. The shops have been closed by Norfolk Southern and now stand deserted.

The crewman doesn't look too happy that I am taking his picture. But this was a unique paint scheme and I wanted to get the shot. There were three N&W EMD GP38AC units that received the "skun... (more)

1218 is rolling westbound at Salem VA.