Photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. Superior WV is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Division. The railroad calls this Huger in the timetable. N&W Y3a 2060... (more)

Curtain Call

Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 makes its final approach to Esbenshade Road as power for a Strasburg Rail Road train. It will soon be headed back to its owners, the Virg... (more)

Norfolk & Western 611 leads its passenger train up the grade towards Carpenters on its 73rd Birthday. Happy Birthday, 611.

After running the 1:30 PM train, N&W 611, the J 4-8-4 switches right next to a PRR signal and the J Tower just before backing into the station in Ronks, PA

Train wreck at Superior WV – photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. The railroad calls this location Huger which is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Divisi... (more)

N&W 1620 is about to cross the former Virginian Ry mainline with an empty hopper train at South Yard in Roanoke. The empties have come from the Belews Creek Power Plant on the Shenandoah Division ... (more)

N&W 1373 waits in the hole, as a manifest freight heads east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline.

Still in original colors this unit is owned by NS on this date.

Eastbound coal leaving Bluefield on track one while four additional trains await their turn. Next out will be the train with a variety of eight diesels on the head end. Identifiable are N&W SD40... (more)

View from the vestibule…Our westbound excursion train is passing Shaffers Crossing Roundhouse, in the left background, and a yard switching crew that includes N&W U30B 8476 and C7F caboose 55755... (more)

Aside from the new units painted in Heritage paint schemes, there were also some actual heritage units in Spencer, North Carolina back in July 2012. All three locomotives were built in the 1950s. ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 611 leads NS excursion train 956 by the Montvale signals

The 1974 Preamble Express. The train was in Indy 07/23/74 and then Detroit 07/24/74. Routed on the N&W from Indy to Detroit. Probably connected to the Wabash line in Peru then headed to Detroit. h... (more)

Norfolk & Western Class J 611 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum

Norfolk & Western GP9 902 and SD40-2 1639 await their next assignment at Winston-Salem North Yard. GP9 902 was one of the last GP9s delivered to N&W in a group built in 1959.