Vista Visits: NS 8001 leads southbound manifest NS 11Z southbound through Buena Vista, Virginia, as it makes a final push toward Roanoke, Virginia, before dark.

Sunset Show: NS 3649 leads manifest 13Z southbound through Buena Vista, Virginia, as the sun begins to lower for the day.

Colorful Visitors: NS 13Z, led by UP 8571, hurls south through Buena Vista, Virginia, as the train also had a BNSF trailing 3rd with an NS SD70ACU sandwiched in the middle. The train brings in ni... (more)

Golden light shines down on a freshly painted Reading heritage unit as it brings NS 11Z south through Buena Vista, VA.

Buena Vista Curves: As NS 12Z came north on the line, Buena Vista, VA was the spot decided by the dispatcher to have a running meet with NS 13Z led by the Illinois Terminal heritage unit. Seen he... (more)

Snap and Go: As I continued my chase south of the NS 1072 IT heritage unit toward Roanoke, I pulled off to the side of the ride at a crossing just on the outskirts of Buena Vista, VA before tryin... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 304 (Roanoke, VA-Shenandoah, VA manifest) rolls northbound on the NS Roanoke District through the city of Buena Vista, Virginia. Buena Vista is Spanish for "good view... (more)

15T cruises through Buena Vista with the Virginian heritage unit in the wrong position.

NS 11Z slows to a stop on the siding at Buena Vista as NS 16T passes on the main in the last gasps of golden light

Southbound 11Z passes through Buena Vista, VA on their way towards Roanoke, as the aftermath of a storm back towards Midvale leaves a rainbow behind.

After a heavy summer shower, NS 11Z departs the main track at Buena Vista as a double rainbow appears over top the mountain ridges

Southbound coal train 576 (Shire Oaks, PA - Norfolk, VA) approaching West 10th Street in Buena Vista. NS SD70ACC 1826 was originally built as NS SD70 2538 in 1994.

A manifest heads southbound on the Shenandoah Valley Line.

Norfolk Southern's move of the Virginia Museum of Transportation's 4-8-4 VMTX/N&W 611 was supposed to be one day from Roanoke to Enola, PA and the next to Strasburg, PA, however that plan quickly ... (more)

NS 780 thunders southbound through Buena Vista on the Shenendoah Valley line as it heads toward Roanoke, Va for a crew change.