Calm and quiet, still and silent… As day turns to night along the banks of the Staunton River, the silence that surrounds the river is broken as a peak season edition of 24X hustles north tow... (more)

Hauling the mail out of Atlanta, hotshot stack train #24X darts north through Wellford, South Carolina passing a Southern Railway whistle board, something that is being phased out across all forme... (more)

NS 24X, with un-rebuilt power, has American flags adorned to the front of the lead unit for Memorial Day 2023. Behind the leader are NS 9898 (C44-9W) and NS 9841 (C44-9W).

Just 5 hours out of Atlanta, NS 24X splits the Southern Railway whistle boards at Cowpens in the late morning light.

Waiting for this train for nearly 5 hour. NS 24X finally arrives, passing the N&W station making it's way towards Rutherford

After coming to a stop in Salisbury to let 12R get into Linwood, the hottest train on the Piedmont division, NS 24X, hustles across the Yadkin River before crew changing at Farmers Crossing. Leadi... (more)

NS 24X detours on the Port Reading Secondary. The leader was rebuilt from C44-9W NS 9279 in May 2022. Behind the leader are C44-9W locomotives NS 9811 and NS 9911. On this weekend, freight trains ... (more)

NS 24X heads east passing by local farms on the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Line. Behind the leader are C44-9W locomotives NS 9837 and NS 9772.

“Moving the Weight of the World..” Poking out into the sunlight at Dry Fork, Richard and Calvin hustle the hot 24X north with the newest edition to the special paint fleet on the point of t... (more)

The rebuilt NS 4822 on its first trip eastward to the greater New York City area. Behind the leader are NS 1117 (SD70ACe) and NS 9795 (C44-9W). The leader was rebuilt from C44-9W NS 9615 in May 20... (more)

The “A-Team” With the recently released “Moving the Weight of the World” AC44C6M on the point, Richard Rose and Calvin Jones hustle 24X north through Dry Fork on a typical hot and muggy... (more)

Northbound Under the Signals. The daily hotshot 24X passes under the remnant Southern Railway signal bridge in Lowell, NC, led by an increasingly rare Dash 9 that once wandered the system ... (more)

One of Norfolk Southern's SD70ACC rebuild locomotives leads NS 24X from Atlanta, Georgia to Croxton/Jersey City, NJ. The leader was rebuilt from SD70 NS 2546 in January of 2019. Behind the leader ... (more)

24X cruises across the Pacolet river at Converse along the former Southern Railway.

The N&W heritage unit leads 24X through Bound Brook on a clear spring morning. The paint on this unit seems to have held up better than some of the other NS heritage units.