Southern Belle leads 18M past Farm on its way to Bluefield.

18M, with a very colorful lashup, passes through Chattaroy, about to hit a bottleneck ahead in Williamson.

A very clean dash 9 leads Norfolk Southern manifest freight train 18M through the signals at Maybeury, WV on October 22, 2014.

Headed up by a pair of EMDs, Norfolk Southern train 18M heads south through the signals at Cox in Greensboro, NC on October 17, 2014.

With a friendly wave from the conductor, Norfolk Southern train 18M continues south through Greensboro, NC on August 27, 2014.

NS 8400 in Conrail Quality paint leads 18M Eastbound through Rawl. Wish I hadn't taken seeing these things so often for granted, can't see them anymore.

18M enters one of only 3 single track segments between Portsmouth and Bluefield, at Stepptown, with a colorful consist which included a BNSF Gevo, CSX AC4400CW, and a GMTX SW1500.

Let the parade begin! After being held for the steam special, the parade of traffic began to move past Ought One.

Eastbound manifest 18M is seen climbing the grade up Christiansburg Mountain as it heads for Roanoke.

The Reading heritage unit leads a lengthy 18M through the town of Oakvale, W.Va. under a gloomy morning sky. A whole swarm of photographers were out to catch this train.

A late NS 18M blasts out of Glen Alum Tunnel after being slowed by winter storm Titan.

A battered standard cab Dash 8 leads a southbound manifest freight train through the signals at control point Cox in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 23, 2014.

NS 18M enters Welch tunnel heading eastbound towards its final destination of Linwood, NC.