Norfolk Southern Circus Train heads north through Chester, SC on March 31, 2014.

The new 289, which replaced train 201, hustles up the grade at Shawsville, VA with the Conrail heritage unit trailing third. The brick school building behind the lead locomotive was originally bu... (more)

NS 7586 leads a westbound freight out of Memphis, Tennessee. The Bass Pro Pyramid can be seen in the background.

NS 7586 sits waiting for QLACMEM6 to clear on the BNSF Thayer South Sub before it can continue its journey west. The surrounding fields have flooded with water coming to nearly the tops of some o... (more)

NS 7586 snakes it way west as it comes off the CN interchange tracks and onto the UP Memphis Sub onto the Harahan Bridge.

11V approaching the E. 26th Street grade crossing in Cleveland, Ohio on the NS Cleveland Line.

Eastbound stack train crosses over 1 to 2 at CP Leets to get around the Ambridge switcher just ahead on main one.

NS 16T battles uphill through Groseclose, VA with a trio of GE's and a heavy manifest train in tow.

Former Virginian rails see a coal drag helped over Clark's Gap by an ES40DC during some late fall color.

This train had a new unit up front and four more older standard cabs in the lashup. First shot with my new 24-105.

With a splash of WV fall color on the hills, Hill Run U88 makes two cuts and ties the loads down atop Clarks Gap. Not exactly on the beaten path and slightly difficult to access, the scenery is st... (more)

3 engines on the front, and two new ES44AC's on the rear grind their way towards Clark's Gap across one of the many trestles that make up the former Virginian Line.

After pulling a coal drag over Clarks Gap and setting it off at Algonquin, the motors head back to Elmore Yard to repeat the task all over again. Anybody ever been to Micajah?

Fall colors are visible just outside the Norton Yard.