"NS 578 Medium Clear CP Rochester" comes over the radio as NS 8098 starts to pull west out out of Rochester as it leads its first train and makes it's first revenue mile.

Norfolk Southern's first heritage unit, Conrail 8098, leads a coal drag through Massillon on what seems to be a early summer day in Ohio.

With only a few minutes of shoot able light left before the sun disappeared behind the clouds NS 578 rolls under the PRR Position lights at Wooster Oh.

NS 8098 makes it's first revenue run since being built in Erie. Here the 578 with 3 brand new Gevos and 2 ratty SD70ace's trailing behind the beautiful Heritage unit lean into the S-Curve just eas... (more)

Although a generic wedge shot with no interesting photographic venues, I wanted to shoot this unit as much as I could while it was stopped short of Beck Road in East Canton. This was the 8098's ma... (more)

Coal drag 578 swings through the truss bridge in Massillon with six AC units on the point, the lead engine being the freshly released Conrail heritage unit on its first day of road service.

Norfolk Southern's Conrail heritage unit makes it's in-service debut on the point of a 578 loaded coal train bound for Portsmouth, OH and beyond. Here, the train pounds the diamond with the Wheel... (more)

After being held up at CP "WING" for MoW work, van train 25Z hustles west through the small community of Haysville.

NS 951, the eastbound OCS, splits the signals just east of the Crestline diamonds. Norfolk Southern President and CEO Wick Moorman was aboard the train.

NS' coveted F units bring a healthy string of executive cars west through Crestline, pounding the diamond with the old "Big Four" at restricted speeds.

Two units struggle to haul an extra section of 14N up the grade at Highland Cut, located near Big Beaver, PA. Though the cut looks great in the months of vast vegetation, it becomes spectacularly... (more)

The famed Pennsy E8s cross the Beaver River as they head west out of Pittsburgh toward Chicago, where they will participate in National Train Day 2011.

Limited to 30mph all the way to Conway due to EOT problems, 20Q glides eastbound past a barn off of Haggerty Road just outside of New Galilee.