NS' Central of Georgia and Pennsylvania heritage engines bring up the rear of lite power move 961 as they cross the Pigeon River at Newport, TN en route from the heritage engine gathering at Spenc... (more)

The Heritage festivities are over and train 961 has been assembled and is almost ready to depart. 8101 is actually the bottom unit and will be shoved back through the venue to access the mainline.

Railfans watch at the NS 961 slows to a stop as it departs town after the 2 day event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

With Southern/NS 8099 leading, NS power move 961 crosses the Pigeon River at Newport, TN enroute from Spencer, NC to Knoxville, TN (to stage these locomotives to get back into the revenue coal ser... (more)

The first group of Heritage Units have left the party and head west

The first group of Heritage Units backs out of the NCTM and on to the NS main

Back to work. The first group of Heritage Units to leave the party on their journey west

Back to work. The first group of Heritage Units to leave the party starts their journey west.

NS 961, with 9 of the 20 heritage units from the Spencer Family Portrait, stops at 11th street while NS 337, with NS 9340, highball's by wasting no time.

East on the NS River Line to Asheville, NS 961 parallels the French Broad River transporting the final six remaining EMD SD70ACe heritage locomotives to Spencer from Progress Rail in Muncie.

NS power move 961 crosses Douglas Lake in the late evening sun at Leadvale, TN enroute to Linwood, NC with the final six EMD heritage engines released earlier in the week from Muncie, IN. The heri... (more)

NS 961, a special deadhead operating from Muncie to Spencer, NC for Norfolk Southern's 'family portrait' makes its trek east across the former Southern Railway mainline at Newport, east of Knoxvil... (more)

On a hot June afternoon, NS 6792 leads six NS Heritage Units southward across a very dry cornfield at Oakville, Indiana. Train 961 had just departed the Progress Rail locomotive assembly plant in... (more)

NS 961 with six new heritage units is seen eastbound from EMD in Muncie, Indiana to Cincinnati and points south and east. The new units are: Penn Central, CNJ, Wabash, Illinois Terminal, Virginia... (more)

NS SD70ACe #1030 brings six heritage units south through Greensboro, NC. Just think, with these kind of winnings you could have a few of your own!