Former Nickel Plate Road GP9 523, renumbered by new owner Norfolk & Western at Madison, Illinois on November 19, 1966. Photo by John Booker, from my collection.

An eastbound Norfolk & Western train, with in the lead NKP Alco RS36 872, Wabash F7 680, NKP GP9 812 and NKP RS11 563 at State Line Tower crossing the EJ&E, N&W (ex-Wabash), and the IHB on Jul... (more)

Norfolk & Western GP7 2410 former NKP 410 built 1/51. No photographer listed on slide from my collection.

When the Norfolk & Western took over the Wabash, it inherited a group of eight FM Train Masters that had been rebuilt with Alco 16-251B engines. N&W 3594 posed at Bellevue, OH, beneath the smokest... (more)

An impressive late-1960s sight at the Norfolk & Western's big yard at Bellevue, OH, was the trios of ex-Wabash FM Train Masters that worked the hump. These massive locomotives had been re-engined ... (more)

One of the ten Norfolk & Western (ex-Wabash) F7s leased by the Jersey Central in the early 1970s teamed up with the CNJ's own F7s to create this four-unit lashup at the Communipaw Avenue engine te... (more)

All Dressed Up……

When I last photographed Norfolk & Western RSD12 258, I did not expect to see it again, ... (more)

Last and First

The highest- and lowest-numbered of Norfolk & Western’s, as well as Nickel Plate’s, nine RSD12’s work out their final years at N&W’s coal docks at Lambert’... (more)

Lambert’s Point, Virginia, became to primary home of Norfolk & Western’s nine ex-Nickel Plate RSD 12’s after they were withdrawn from road service. In addition to the nine Alco’s, NKP also... (more)

Norfolk & Western T6 36 lets out a snort as it puts its shoulder into a cut of empty hoppers at Lamberts Point, Virginia. I always thought that the T6 sounded more like an overgrown farm tractor t... (more)

Norfolk & Western F7(A) 3660 ex-Wabash 1156A, the railroad inherited 103 F7As of Wabash heritage from the 1964 merger with that railroad. Photo part of my slide collection, no photographer liste... (more)

We're at the Singer crossovers on the Norfolk and Western mainline, west of Roanoke. High short hood C628 1115 leads four other assorted units on a westbound manifest.

In the early 1970s, the Jersey Central leased ten ex-Wabash F7s from the Norfolk & Western to help with a perennial power shortage. N&W 3697 was awaiting its next assignment outside the CNJ/RDG ro... (more)

A Norfolk & Western train with in the lead NW GP7 3479, NW F7A 3689, Wabash F7A 645, NW GP35 224 and Wabash F7A 453 near Decatur, Illinois November 14, 1965. Unknown photographer photo from my col... (more)

Cincinnati to Portsmouth train CP-80 has just departed from Gest St yard (ex-Southern). It's descending to ground level and will soon be street-running on Mehring Way.