Interstate 8105 and Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 return to Norton after dropping a cut of coal loads at Tacoma. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more in... (more)

Interstate 8105 and Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 return to Norton after dropping a cut of coal loads at Tacoma. The empty hoppers on the left are along the Interstate Railroad's mainline... (more)

Running as lite engines back to Norton after spotting coal loads at the Tacoma Storage track, NS U4N passes under an abandoned coal load out just east of the yard in Norton with the 'Interstate' 8... (more)

Heritage units NS 8105-8114 coupled await a fresh shifter crew at Norton. Taken with permission of and assistance of NS management.

Heading up its first road freight, Interstate 8105 takes the diverging route at Kite en route to the yard at Bulls Gap---just a couple of miles ahead.

"Interstate" 8105 is greeted by the morning light as the doors roll up at the NS locomotive paint shop at Chattanooga. This was the first appearance of the finished locomotive.

An alternate roster view of the 8105.

NS 8105, " The Interstate Railroad heritage locomotive", rolls out of Little tunnel and across Stock Creek on it's first revenue run across the Appalachia district.

Norfolk Southern's Interstate heritage engine works the U57 at Andover, VA with a short cut of loaded NS system hoppers. The 'Interstate' was born in this coal mining community and the appearance ... (more)

Under the dark and rainy skies of a spring thunderstorm NS' Interstate heritage unit leads a westbound light engine move over the North Fork of the Clinch River.

The Interstate heritage unit eases out of the north portal of Natural Tunnel on its way to Andover.

Andover Nocturne: Standing on the very same track where I photographed the last Interstate Railroad RS-3 at Andover--number 32--on October 5, 1965, the newly arrived Interstate heritage unit sits ... (more)

The week-old paint of NS' Interstate Railroad heritage locomotive glistens against the dark background of Little Tunnel just a few feet away from "Natural Tunnel" on NS' Appalachia District.

The Interstate heritage unit eases out of the smaller tunnel within Natural Tunnel. The creek that created Natural Tunnel passes thru a smaller naturally-made tunnel in the lower right of the ima... (more)

This shot might explain one of the many reasons NS decided to do the heritage paint scheme program. Admirers watch "Interstate" 8105 roll through Kite, TN, on the west approach to Bulls Gap. She's... (more)