A westbound CSX empty coal train with a freshly repainted GE AC4400CW l makes a nocturnal pass through Natural Tunnel on NS' Appalachia District (via trackage rights) enroute to the coalfields of ... (more)

It's redbud time in southwest Virginia as an eastbound manned helper passes a local homestead which is now part of Natural Tunnel State Park. The head end is already in the tunnel. The bus is f... (more)

A pair of warbonnets exit the natural cut tunnel east of Belden, California as they guide a BNSF manifest through the treacherous Feather River Canyon.

On May 12, 2014, an eastbound CSX coal train eases out of Natural Tunnel at Glenita, Virginia. This 850-foot long bore is 100 feet high inside and was naturally carved by Stock Creek through a hug... (more)

The crew of NS U56 prepares a train of loaded DEEX cars for the trip to Andover, a day after the Virginian heritage unit was on display at Natural Tunnel State Park.

Amtrak 71 leads the AAPRCO Napa Valley Limited through the Feather River Canyon as it exits a natural tunnel west of Belden, California.

No Way Out. Ex-UP GP40M-2 rests forlornly at Jacumba, CA on the former San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway which was once the Southern Pacific's gateway into San Diego. Vandalism and... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage unit on its way to Natural Tunnel for Railroad Day. I lucked up and caught it leaving Frisco, TN that morning. Strangely me and my ''co pilot" where the only ... (more)

After the first ever Railroad Day held at Natural tunnel State Park, the Virginian heritage unit travels back to Frisco, TN passing through the truss bridge across the Clinch River at Clinchport, ... (more)

The crew on 974 is calling it a day at the yard in Yuma after running lite engine from the Railroad Day event at the Natural Tunnel State Park. A CSX trackage rights train passes in the backgroun... (more)

NS 9256 sits just inside the Natural Tunnel during Casey Thomason’s flash photography demonstration at the Natural Tunnel State Park Railroad Day event.

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage locomotive, poses outside the man made ''Little Tunnel'' during Railroad Day at Natural Tunnel State Park

Railroad Days at Natural Tunnel State Park.. In this scene, No. 1069 is staged just outside Little Tunnel for the first half of a wonderful event sponsored by Norfolk Southern. Big thanks to every... (more)

Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit www.nscorp.com

The Virginian heritage unit, SD70ACe #1069, and Operation Lifesaver D940-CW #9256, took part in the first "Railroad Day" at Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia. Here the duo poses at the north po... (more)