Adhesion testing on Starkey Hill with NS homebuilt SD70ACus. The tanks and hoses are for wet rail testing.

Interior view of Norfolk & Western postal car #93 at the Virginia Transportation Museum in Roanoke, Virginia. This car was built in 1937 by the Bethlehem Steel Car Company.

Pulling into the yard on Main 1, hopper train 825 features quite the consist, to include a UP SD70ACe, a couple of yard slugs, a Norfolk Portsmouth Belt Line locomotive, and the Lehigh Valley Heri... (more)

The deadlines at Roanoke host a wide variety of power and a few motors rare to the Norfolk Southern system. CEFX 6011 still wears it's original Soo Line paint, while sporting the Indiana Railroad ... (more)

The NS 1066 "New York Central" leads the NS 54W south on the Vine at Starkey, leaving a cloud of corn dust behind.

3078 and horse head slug friends 924 and 929 act as pushers bringing up the rear end of a ballast train.

11 EMD SD-90MACs sit in the West Yard awaiting their rebuild on a beautiful fall day.

Various NS & CIT locomotives await their fate near the Shaffer's Crossing Shop in Roanoke, VA. [August 2016]

The Wabash heritage unit leads 188 through the crossover at Randolph Street as it leaves Roanoke Yard, bound for Crewe.

The UP 7814 leads the NS 234 east through the West Yard in Roanoke.

NS 54T is just below the crest of Starkey Hill (southbound) with UP 3600 in command followed by an NS SD60 and GP38-2. The UP leader is UP how I like it: no flag and a red frame stripe. Now I'm th... (more)

Test train 995 approaches Starkey Hill where the pair of C39-8's (8567, 8566) will be put to the test, monitored by research car NS 32. Note the hose draped over the pilot, for "wet rail test... (more)

Test train 995 starts around the connection track at JK between the Silt Mill Lead and the Winston-Salem line with a pair of SD50's (6514, 6518), research car NS 32, and a load of black diamonds p... (more)

Former SOU GP50 #7074, sub-lettered for the Georgia Southern & Florida, poses at JK during January of 1998.

The Queen of Steam in the City Of Roanoke

Norfolk & Western J Class 611 is departing the city of Roanoke with its second excursion of the day as it passes what will become a "l... (more)