N&W Y6 2142 is switching at Blue Ridge while working the local freight.

Southern EMD E8 6910 and an E7A are westbound at Blue Ridge with the TENNESSEAN in my father's photograph. My color slide of this same train passing beneath the bridge is also on this website. The... (more)

This Y6 had pulled an eastbound coal drag earlier in the day as pushed by Y6a 2167. The engine had dropped the loaded hoppers and been turned further to the east. The single lane road bridge was a... (more)

N&W 2150 is the second engine of two Y6 types on an eastbound freight passing the Blue Ridge, Va. station. Y6 2150 was different from others in having aftercooler piping on the boiler as can be se... (more)

N&W Y6b 2179 pushes an eastbound coal drag and is about to pass under the wooden road bridge at Blue Ridge.

N&W Y6b 2179 drifts downgrade beneath the wooden bridge after helping an eastbound freight. I had my father's Voigtländer with me during the August 12 - 14 trip but the weather was mostly overcas... (more)

N&W 611 has just crested the eastbound Blue Ridge Grade and the engineer has backed off the throttle. It's easy going from here to Lynchburg.

N&W 8510 leans into the sweeping curve at Blue Ridge VA. The crest of the famous eastbound Blue Ridge Grade is just ahead.

Almost to the top...NS 8727 leads a local freight train westbound up the eastern side of the famous Blue Ridge Grade heading for Roanoke.

The first light of day breaks over the Blue Ridge Grade as a westbound intermodal takes a clear signal from the classic N&W intermediates that have watched this historic piece of railroad tucked ... (more)

611 at Blue Ridge. Enough said.

A westbound freight descends the famed Blue Ridge Grade on the former Norfolk & Western Blue Ridge district, passing the namesake hamlet of Blue Ridge, Virginia just before sunrise on a tranquil M... (more)

Flying J and Blue Ridge, VA.

611 roars up the Blue Ridge Grade, keeping the train going at 30mph or so while putting on quite the show for railfans.

The first shot of the morning was a great one as 611 made its way proudly through this quaint setting. The signal bridge had just been replaced removing some history to this photo, but making new... (more)