With the First Responders unit and the Veterans Unit leading the way, 068 enters Roanoke with a train full of passenger coaches, the exhibit car, and a gondola full of coal.
The afternoon trip to Walton departs downtown Roanoke as a crowd of onlookers watch.
Steam locomotives? Cabooses? Lordy, Roanoke IS Heaven!
Roanoke's Rockstar J 611 is finally home as the excursion train is turned on a wye in downtown Roanoke and the Mill Mountain star stands atop its namesake mountain in the background.
Welcome home old girl! Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611 struts her stuff on her first trip under her own power in more than 20 years. The crowds cheered as the big steamer rolled into town a... (more)
In a cold and breezy Star City, Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 No. 1218 simmers outside of the O. Winston Link Museum during the 10th anniversary celebration of the OWL Museum. Thanks to everyone at No... (more)
EMDX SD70ACe Demonstrator #2012 leads a westbound ethanol train through downtown Roanoke, VA at sunrise. Timing could not have been better!
This empty hopper train is coming off the Blue Ridge District on clear signals through downtown Roanoke.
The hind end of NS 217 slips under the CPL's guarding the east end of Park Street.