Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)

N&W high-hood GP35 212 at Bellevue, Ohio on January 15, 1984. N&W units numbers 200 to 239 were built between 11/63 and 4/64.

Hurricane Henri makes for a dreary day, but Norfolk & Western Class J #611 makes up for it while charging into Carpenters Crossing on the Strasburg Rail Road.

Viewed from the Virginia Blue Ridge right-of-way, my favorite Norfolk & Western fan tripper backs across the trestle over the Tye River in Tye River, Virginia. The train has discharged any passeng... (more)

N&W 710 leads a GP9 - RS36 - GP9 - RS11 lashup on a westbound, crossing the NF&D at Suffolk, Virginia circa 1970. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)

Oh....THAT intermodal...known by other names to those on the ground that morning, unkind names for sure. #611 returns to the NS mainlines with this run, dream come true for many...and seemed to o... (more)

N&W GP40 1356 - CRIP GP40 4704 - UP U50C 5033 lead a train into North Yard in Denver, Colorado in the mid 1970's. My father has several pictures of run-through N&W power in Denver. While the pow... (more)

475 pulling in to the steam shops after a day of pulling trains through the Amish farmlands back and forth.

Iron horse meets real horse at a farm in Marshall, VA, during a Manassas-Front Royal excursion.

The last time 1218 ventured out onto the main line: for an event at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke. Here she sits on display as an NS freight passes eastbound.

Coal empties from the north are Roanoke-bound crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In typical Norfolk & Western fashion, an SD40-2 leads the train long hood fo... (more)