Looking more like Scranton or Bethlehem, PA then Spencer, NC, the Lehigh Valley 8104 with its nicely revised nose backs onto a roundhouse track as the Erie and DL&W look on.

Another fan favorite rolls by the crowd...the Lehigh Valley.

After a long day of chasing the "Valley Girl" across Indiana the last shot of the day was from a new rural road overpass across both the NS and the not yet complete Indiana State Route 25. The ne... (more)

17K takes the siding at Colburn to meet a couple eastbounds before arriving Lafayette.

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit leads 17K through Wabash.

After setting some cars and their rear engine off at Lafayette, NS 17K blasts past the quiet elevator at West Point, westbound for Decatur, IL.

Westbound 17K hits Comstock Street in Wabash at 25 mph with Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Valley heritage unit leading the way. This was the units first "leading role" after it's nose job. Kudos to NS... (more)

LV 8104 is just released out of the paint shop after getting her nose repainted. The LV heritage units leads NS 17K off the siding at Danes just east of Logansport, Indiana on the NS ex Wabash lin... (more)

The "Valley Girl" passes a recently repainted signal mast at Logansport and is about to climb the 0.9% grade to Clymers.

Leading it's first train since it's re-release after a new nose job, the Lehigh Valley 8104 makes a dash towards Lafayette after meeting two eastbounds in the hole at Colburn.

17K rolls by some of the "new 25" construction work west of Clymers.

Fresh off it's re-release party, the Lehigh Valley heritage GEVO leads a short 17K through Roanoke Station, just outside of Roanoke on the former Wabash. Our chase covered 160+ miles (one way) and... (more)

17K is heading west by the Delphi water tank. The location is actually just *east* of town.

17K is the first train that 8104 led after her "new nose" debuted.

Lehigh Valley 8104, Norfolk Southern's eighth heritage locomotive, rests outside the Juniata Paint Shop, sporting a new "nose job". For more information, visit ... (more)