While NS 811 completes a crew change in Bluefield, NS #8021 coasts with its own empty hopper train across Cooper's Trestle near Bramwell, WV on March 21, 2021. Constructed as part of a massive rea... (more)

Arriving to the Bluefield, WV yards, NS 811, lead by NS #9619, a Dash 9-44CW, creeps along the north side of the yard and passes the car shops that originally date back to the N&W days of operatio... (more)

The sun is setting on another day along the former N&W Pocahontas Division as Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1187 grinds upgrade in Notch 8 outside of Elkhorn, WV during the late afternoon of March 21,... (more)

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 slows to a crawl through the little town of Iaeger, WV on March 7, 2021 as its train, NS 393, continues west to Portsmouth, OH. Here at Iaeger, the former N&W Dry For... (more)

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 flies past the coal prep plant in Keystone, WV on March 7, 2021 hauling train 393. This structure according to my sources, as part of the coal preparation process, co... (more)

Wabash heritage unit #1070 drifts downgrade through Maybeury, WV on March 7, 2021. This area of the Pocahontas Division was originally electrified, but upon realignment and construction in the lat... (more)

After a brief crew change, NS 393 lead by Wabash heritage unit #1070 rolls out of Bluefield, WV on the afternoon of March 7, 2021. Standing at 125 feet tall, the coaling tower in the background wa... (more)

"Follow the Flag": Originally a Class 1 railroad that served Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri and the province of Ontario, Canada, the Wabash railroad was a major freigh... (more)

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 hauling train 393 pulls into Bluefield, WV on the morning of March 7, 2021. Meanwhile, an NS conductor, surrounded by empty coal hoppers awaiting a ride, radios and s... (more)

Having arrived to the east end of the Bluefield, WV yards, NS 393, lead by Wabash heritage unit #1070, creeps its way along the southside main on March 7, 2021. In June 1952, the N&W began constru... (more)

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 passes through an S curve outside of Ingleside, WV on March 7, 2021 hauling NS train 393.

There are lots of S curves to be had on the far western end of the Christiansburg District as NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 leads NS 393 to Bluefield, WV on March 7, 2021 outside of Ingleside, WV.... (more)

NS 393, with Wabash heritage unit #1070 leading, flies west along Norfolk Southern's Christiansburg District outside of Glen Lyn, VA on March 7, 2021. Zoom pan at 1/13th a second.

"Sunbathing in Bluefield": Higginbotham's Summit - 363.3 miles from Norfolk at the top of a 1.0 percent grade when the N&W arrived in 1882-1883 while forming its lines west of the New Ri... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1101 speeds east at CP Glen Lyn on the late afternoon of February 20, 2021 as a westbound manifest freight occupies the southside main. This piece of railroad was orig... (more)