Furnace Progress. Under a cloudless sky, Norfolk Southern Train AB10 heads from Finley Yard in Birmingham, Alabama to Irondale Yard in Irondale, Alabama on August 13, 2021 with NS SD60Es 69... (more)

CSX train Q60616 glides south across the Norfolk Southern mainline in Junction City, GA, while NS train 62N performs a brake test after pulling 62 loads of rock from Junction City Mining.

Southern Era still lives here as this is one of the only places that everything seems unchanged from the recent signal upgrades and signage as a rail train heads "Southern style" long ho... (more)

A pair of EMDs lead a SB autorack train over the Braswell Mountain summit during the biggest snowstorm I've seen in the southeast in my lifetime.

Westbound Norfolk Southern train 69V is stopped just east of the East 9th Street crossing in Big Stone Gap, Virginia while waiting to receive permission to enter the Andover Yard limits. NS 69V i... (more)

64Q winds its way through an s-curve south of Rockwood.

The crew of NS Columbia local P85 brings their power back after a quick trip to Martin Marietta. They are returning lite back to Andrews Yard as they pass Columbia's Amtrak Station and the old So... (more)

Norfolk Southern engineer Richard Coddington begins to work power on train D32 on an unseasonably cool Saturday afternoon, with a former Milwaukee Road SD40-2 in trail. Steve Smedley photo

NS 375 begins its journey across southern Indiana and Illinois as it heads for St. Louis.

On another near zero day, NS trusts a solo SD60E, to do the job as a one unit wonder on the head end of this westbound auto-rack train.

While waiting for the Reading Heritage Unit to arrive in Rochester, PA, a father and son watch, and take pictures of a manifest heading west out of Conway.

A rebuilt SD60E, fresh from the Juniata shops, ducks under the starkly contrasting ancient signal bridge at Walters. The former CNW SD60 was just days out of the shop at the time of this photo.