An AC44C6M is in charge of an empty coal hopper train as it passes by a blooming Bradford Pear tree in Shawsville, VA.

NS 814 has crested Christiansburg grade in a light snow with the NW heritage unit on “home rails”.

NS 821 accelerates after stopping to turn on the second locomotive. The train is led by the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit as it passes Shawsville, VA in some beautiful golden hour light.

A flashback to something green for St. Patrick's Day.... NS 1072 leads Norfolk Southern train 214 over Virginia State Route 55 heading west on the NS B-Line.

With the Norfolk and Western heritage unit in the lead, NS 813 rushes west out of a snowy Montgomery tunnel.

A trio of NS GE locomotives exiting the curve and passing over the solar-powered hydraulic flange greaser/rail lubricator at Gilbert Station.

A clean GE AC44C6M leads Norfolk Southern Train 27A past an old building by the tracks in White Post, Virginia. This community is literally named for a white post that is a mile from the tracks at... (more)

A quartet of NS locomotives on a southbound train at Melbourne Road.

I like SD40s, especially the "no dash" carbody ones and in this originally PRR, ex PC, ex CR we have the best of both worlds. It's leading a CSX empty hopper train on NS approaching Na... (more)

Norfolk Southern Train 12R rolls through the historic community of Delaplane, Virginia.

Norfolk Southern Train 227 rolls past the old Purina Foods tower in Marshall, Virginia on a beautiful spring morning.

Back in the day when the Santa Train was not so glamorous the consist threads it way southward through bare trees in murky weather. Only the train changes.

Say so long. West of town a helper set is pushing hard on a southbound coal train destined to diverge onto NS trackage rights just down the road. Our subject is on borrowed time and will be gone... (more)

After a full day of successfully run, inaugural Virginia Scenic Railway excursions, Buckingham Branch Railroad GP38-2 #17, a former Norfolk Southern locomotive, and the beautiful 'Arvonia' passeng... (more)

The New York Central heritage unit is solo as it pulls empty grainer NS 41N through Elliston, VA after the sun has set for the day.