In early 1953, the Interstate Railroad was testing diesels to find the best replacements for its steam locomotives. Borrowed C&O RSD-5 has just returned from Miller Yard with a Hill Crew--bringing... (more)

Dieselization is catching up to the N&W as these Alcos and an EMD Geep await their next assignment at the water tank at Norton, VA. RS-3 306 is ahead of the 308 on Dec. 29, 1956.

NS conductor Clint Boyd rides the shove move of NS train U4N through the yard at Norton in the last rays of sunlight after taking a cut of coal loads to Tacoma.

Interstate 8105 and Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 return to Norton after dropping a cut of coal loads at Tacoma. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more in... (more)

Interstate 8105 and Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 return to Norton after dropping a cut of coal loads at Tacoma. The empty hoppers on the left are along the Interstate Railroad's mainline... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 and Interstate 8105 shuffles a cut of coal from Norton to the storage track at Tacoma. The Interstate Railroad's mainline and wye can be seen in the backgrou... (more)

Running as lite engines back to Norton after spotting coal loads at the Tacoma Storage track, NS U4N passes under an abandoned coal load out just east of the yard in Norton with the 'Interstate' 8... (more)

With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS U4N gets underway out of the yard at Norton with coal loads bound for the storage track at Tacoma

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 meets the Interstate heritage unit in front of the NS yard office in Norton, home territory for the Interstate Railroad. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norf... (more)

Here's another fine shot from my collection, this one taken by the late Hank Stuart, Jr. This is N&W's daily Clinch Valley District passenger local number 5, arriving from Bluefield. During the sh... (more)

NS 591, with 57 empty "blacks", comes to a rest in the ex-N&W's Norton Yard. After a quick crew change, the new crew will place these empties in the yard.

Crawling under the hood, a worker labors to keep an old Whiting trackmobile operational.

Working on an ancient, antique Whiting Trackmobile that's probably older than the broken Ford truck across the tracks. The site used to be home to Cumberland Collieries and is now Mountain Energy ... (more)

NS 729, a loaded coal drag, creeps through the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard as it negotiates the steepest grade on the ex-IRR's main line, the track between Dorchester Junction and the cre... (more)

One of the last NS excursions - headed to Appalachia, VA