A quartet of Norfolk & Western C30-7s diesels, with 8010 on the point, bring a Norfolk Southern coal train into Norfolk, Virginia, on a gloomy Valentine's Day 1983. The N&W was merged with the So... (more)

Norfolk Franklin & Danville 2 is an ALCO RS-36 built in October 1949 for the Atlantic & Danville Railway (as AD 2).

The Atlantic and Danville Railway was incorporated in 1882 and opened... (more)

A Virginia shortline I nearly missed, having only got one shot of a different engine. Photo by JC Hopkins. From my collection.

A NS SD40 is coupled to a slug rebuilt from a Fairbanks Morse H24-66. The slug provides extra tractive effort without the need for more horsepower. The slug gets its electrical power from the SD40... (more)

Lamberts Loads: NS 4462 leads loaded coal train NS 598 eastbound into Lamberts Point Coal Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, on a lovely spring evening.

The Norfolk Ford Assembly Plant ceased production on June 2007. In 2011, the main assembly building was purchased by Katoen Natie for $10.5 million to be used as a distribution hub for plastic pe... (more)

The HL Gladstone gets loaded with the finest black diamonds in the world by NS’s famous Coal Pier Six.

Amtrak #2 leads 94 across Bridge 5 in downtown Norfolk over the Elizabeth River. The train has just departed the station in Norfolk for it's 13 hour run to Boston's South Station.

NV-01 crosses the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, VA on a beautiful July morning. The bridge, originally a double-track structure used by Virginian and the Belt Line was re-buil... (more)

Amtrak #94 departs Norfolk, VA for it's run to Boston, MA on a beautiful April morning along the Elizabeth River. The train is crossing Norfolk & Western Bridge 5, with parallel bridge 5A out of ... (more)

NV01 crosses the former Virginian Railway/Belt Line bridge over the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. The train is taking a cut of stack cars to NIT for export. The structure, or... (more)

AS 234 makes it's reverse move across Bridge 5, 822 cruises by en route to Lambert's Point for export.

Due in large part to PSR, super long stack trains now have to pull all the way out onto Bridge 5 to make their set-offs at Portlock. This was the case on a beautiful afternoon in downtown Norfolk... (more)

Amtrak's Northeast Regional departs Norfolk on a crystal clear morning bound for Boston's South station. The train is crossing Bridge 5 over the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River.

Dash-2 powered empties head for the mines.