After cresting the grade at Linden, VA, N&W Class J #611 is cruising downgrade nearing Front Royal on a beautiful Spring afternoon. With all the crowds that were out following this train, it was s... (more)

611 comes towards on me on its return trip of its 1st excursion of the day

NS 290 snaking through the beautiful Virginia countryside at last light on the outskirts of Front Royal.

A rare visitor to the East Coast, IC 1026 leading the NS stack train 228 from Harrisburg, PA to Norfolk, VA. Pictured cutting away from their train to enter the Virginia Inland Port.

The Norfolk Southern H Line (Former N&W) is full of little quirks. This scene is captured just north of Front Royal, VA as SD70M-2 2699 leads 11R heading south. Special thanks to Sean Hoyden for t... (more)

Photographer- Marc Grinter- from a 35 mm slide. Former N&W Class "A" #1218 accelerates out of Front Royal, Virginia on a late spring day on the return leg of a round trip originating in Alexand... (more)

N&W caboose No. 518575 was trailing a southbound empty hopper train at Riverton Junction in Front Royal, VA on October 13, 1987.

NS 37Q, with engine 8735 leading, rolls southbound through Riverton Jct. on the Hagerstown District, as NS contractors do major landscaping work prior to changing the track layout.

Norfolk Southern's Office CAr Special curves off the former N&W H-Line bridge over the Shenandoah River and onto the connector to the former Southern B-Line to Manassas. The track in the foregroun... (more)

NS 951 leaves the ex-N&W for the ex-Southern immediately after crossing the Shenandoah River at Front Royal.

NS 227 heads north/west on the NS ex-Southern B-Line as it approaches the former N&W trackage in Front Royal on its trip into the heartland.

OMG ... now that is a broken coupler. ENR 2476 broke a coupler while in transit in NS 11R as the engineer throttled up from a stop to climb the Linden Grade on the NS B-line. Actually, the trai... (more)

The power and caboose for the local lays over at Front Royal on the Shenandoah line.

The Southern Railway was famous for it's excursion trains in the 70s and 80s. The power on this trip has been placed on the rear of the train and is ready to depart Front Royal and return to Alexa... (more)

Exactly three years before the world changed, a set of Conrail power leads 213 east on NS's B Line.