The leaves are leaving and the weakening sun flames on the horizon as the oddly numbered westbound freight tops another rise approaching the end of their crew day at Bristol.

Eastbound freight clattering across the switches and passing a former BNSF SD40-2. After the next train passes the 3495 will hotfoot it to Pulaski light under a work train number.

Pittsburgh Push: As the morning gets underway in Pittsburgh, manifest train NS 10G begins its journey east of Pittsburgh and onto the NS Conemaugh line, as it leaves the Pittsburgh skyline in the... (more)

Throwback Time. Appropriately led by the Southern heritage unit, the NS OCS passes the former Union Station in Columbia that the Southern served for many years until the last Carolina Spec... (more)

NS 955 in Fort Mill led by the Southern and Virginian Heritage Engines

NS's Richmond to Crewe road local departs Richmond with a pair of SD40-2s for power.

CSX B742 with NS 1016 leader races north thru coxsackie

My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)

Conrail HU working for the CPKC at Dallas yard switching duty.

NS 8099 heads over the N&W Viaduct on its way from Altoona to Atlanta.

A Norfolk Southern Railway train passes under the Southern Railway-era signals in Lowell, North Carolina. NS 3544 is a General Electric ET44AC built in June 2016.

Southern Fools: In a consist that would seen too good to be true for April fools, NS 8099 and NS 1069 pull the Masters OCS southbound through Charlottesville, Virginia, after dark, as they head f... (more)

An NS manifest approaches a curve in Unadilla

An NS manifest weaves through the woods along the ex-D&H

Double heritage units the NS 8099 Southern and the NS 1069 Virginian lead the southbound Office Car Special from Maryland into West Virginia over the Potomac River. The OCS will eventually take ex... (more)