Norfolk Southern's OAR Safety Train is at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. for their annual Fire Truck Festival. The train is seen here doing some photo runbys after the ev... (more)

Norfolk Southern's OAR Safety Train is at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. for their annual Fire Truck Festival. The train is seen here doing some photo runbys after the ev... (more)

There were many photo opportunities at the Streamliners at Spencer event back in 2014. In this photo N&W 611 has been coupled to Norfolk Southern Office cars in the yard just south of the roundh... (more)

For one day, to join N&W #611's return to the rails, famed #501 was dressed to play the part of an ACL locomotive on loan to the Norfolk & Western, replicating the 1958-59 period where such a thin... (more)

One of the many sideshows at the "NS Family Portrait" event of 2012 was seeing two original Norfolk Southern paint schemes side by side.

Looking as she might have when demoted from the major trains to local service this classic is actually taking the short trip around the museum property. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collect... (more)

Originally B&E but looking great in a shiny classic paint scheme this unit is actually from the Potomac Eagle Operation.

Even though the days of pulling TOFC freight through the Rathole or dragging wood chip hoppers over the Old Fort loops is over, this venerable work horse still gets to clean the carbon out of its ... (more)

A lonely survivor prepares for a comeback. The F40 was the perfect passenger train workhorse, and for years these were a staple on the local jaunts as well as heading up notable long haul journe... (more)

Power Up 307! The site of so many many great restorations, the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina has recently announced yet another. Former Amtrak 307 (F40PH, EMD, 5/197... (more)

Norfolk Southern's OAR Safety Train is seen scattered around the Roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC., ahead of the Museum's annual Fire Truck Festival.

Norfolk Southern SD60E #911 and GP38-2 #5642 pose for some photos in front of the Barber Jct. Train Station at the North Carolina Transportation Museum during their annual Fire Truck festival. The... (more)

Norfolk Southern EMD SD70ACe 1030 spies her better dressed brothers at the North Carolina Transportation Museum at Foamstock 2012.

NS 1030 gets a spin on the turn table in 2012 at the Norfolk Southern heritage event as the twenty heritage units look on.

Norfolk Southern #8103 kept getting away from me back at Spencer in 2012, but I made sure to get tis shot as she congregated around the Bob Julian Roundhouse that afternoon.