Former N&W SD40-2, 6162, leads an eastbound coal train up the Elkhorn grade about a quarter mile west of Elkhorn Tunnel.
Three loaded coal trains and one grain train wait to go east on the former Virginian Ry mainline. They are sitting beside the restored Virginian Depot.
On a cool rainy evening, 611 blasts through Hurt, VA on her way back to Greensboro, NC.
It's late afternoon and the sun has sunk behind the mountains to the west as another loaded coal train negotiates the sharp curves and the eastbound Elkhorn grade heading for Bluefield West Virgin... (more)
Former Conrail SD60I, 5621, renumbered to NS 6744, leads a westbound freight train at Farm. Farm was one of those places where you could really get a feel for the old N&W. With numerous CPL's, dou... (more)
Conrail SD50, 6821, leads a westbound freight through downtown Roanoke. The distinctive building over the units is the former N&W office building. The former N&W East End Shops are in the center b... (more)
NS 8659 is departing Auville Yard with a westbound coal train.
Former N&W GP-40s, 1347 and 1370, head-up a passenger special from Roanoke south to Martinsville, VA for the NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway.
Virginia & Truckee standard gauge 4-4-0 #22 "INYO" and narrow gauge 2-6-0 "GLENBROOK" bask in the morning sun outside the engine shed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Car... (more)
ACWR 9582 brings up one end of a special push-pull Charter for the Atlantic Coast Line-Seaboard Air Line Historical Society 2005 Convention.
An eastbound freight, lead by D9-40CW, 9318, passes the remnants of Northfork,WV. Mother Nature is reclaiming a lot of this once thriving area.
Brakeman Dennis Wimer mans the hand brake as our train descends the steep grade from Whittaker Station back to the Cass Depot.
NS 8667 leads a westbound empty grain train out of the Huger Twin Tunnels on a cold March day in West Virginia.
N&W 611 has just crested the eastbound Blue Ridge Grade and the engineer has backed off the throttle. It's easy going from here to Lynchburg.
And around we go...611 with the assistance of NS Southern Heritage unit ES44AC 8099 and Southern FP7 6133, negotiate the Southern Railway Loops over the Blue Ridge Mountains to Asheville NC. The t... (more)
