CSX rear DPU #3452 slides west past the Chesapeake & Ohio coaling tower in Thurmond, WV on the morning of May 18, 2021. Built by Fairbanks-Morse of Chicago, Illinois, this coaling tower was ab... (more)

"Milepost 4": CSX #144, at the breezy speed of 10 mph, leads a coal train north to Thurmond, WV on the afternoon of May 18, 2021 on RJ Corman Railroad Group's, former C&O, Loup Creek Bra... (more)

CSX #144 crawls across Thurmond Road with coal loads bound for interchange with CSX at Thurmond, WV on RJ Corman Railroad Group's, former C&O, Loup Creek Branch on May 18, 2021. Filled with bridge... (more)

CSX #3232 leads a westbound empty coal hopper train through Thurmond, WV on the spring morning of May 18, 2021. The town was founded by W.D. Thurmond in 1873 when the former Civil War Confederate ... (more)

N&W Class J #611 and Southern J Class #542 stand guard inside the North Carolina Transportation Museum yard in Spencer, NC as part of a NCTM sponsored night photo charter on May 1st, 2021. A "... (more)

It's all hands on deck for the hostlers and engine helpers of N&W Class J #611 on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This locomotive even after a long day of running across the N&W system will need to ... (more)

N&W Class J #611 comes to a stop under the water plug inside the yards of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC on May 1st, 2021. Built in 1950, #611 is the only remaining Class ... (more)

N&W Class J #611 pulls into Bristol, VA with the Tennessean on the starry night of May 1st, 2021. Meanwhile on the adjacent track the engineer of Southern FP7A #6133 climbs aboard ready to haul hi... (more)

Norfolk & Western Class J #611 pauses at CP "Duncan" with the Tennessean on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This was taken as part of a night photo charter at the North Carolina Transporta... (more)

N&W Class J #611 stands guard at the N&W CPLs of CP "Duncan" on the evening of May 1st, 2021. The N&W CPLs were donated to the NCTM by Mr. Tommy Duncan, a retired N&W/NS employee of 44 y... (more)

N&W #611 hustles past the N&W CPLs with the Tennessean on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This sunset shot was taken as the start of a night photo shoot hosted by the North Carolina Transportation M... (more)

It's a late night inside Shaffers Crossing of the Norfolk & Western Railway as two female hostlers work to replenish Class J #611's 20,000 gallon tender after a long day of running through souther... (more)

NS #4137 and #4408, hauling a loaded eastbound coal train, have just crested Elkhorn Grade and are crossing Cooper's Trestle in Coopers, WV on the afternoon of April 26, 2021. This coal will be bo... (more)

Norfolk Southern #1813, presumably on the head end of NS 393, heads west on April 26, 2021 along the former Norfolk & Western Pocahontas Division in the sleepy town of Iaeger, WV. Once a bustling ... (more)

Norfolk Southern #3624 slips through the fog with its manifest freight train outside of Narrows, VA on NS' Christiansburg District during the early morning hours of April 26, 2021.