A local fisherman has just started to pull his catch out of the French Broad river as Norfolk Southern's original N&S heritage unit leads westbound Plant Marshall empties through the quint town in... (more)

Pulling out of Norton Yard eastbound for Carbo and the N&W, NS 745 is illuminated by some really nice storm light. This train is bound for the Dry Fork Branch to Williamson.

The late afternoon sunlight shines on a departing empty DKPX train as it leaves Asheville, NC.

NS 8829 leads NS 745 up the mountain from Appalachia VA to Norton VA.

NS 745 heads west on the NS Marshall Line with exactly 100 "DKPX" Bethgons.

As the sun sets deep down inside Natural Tunnel State Park, NS 2673 leads eastbound empty unit coal train 745 through the state park, bound for a meet with NS 386 at Jasper.

Mty Hoppers Head North (timetable West) into Natural Tunnel.

A lengthy train of empty hoppers(en-route to Auville Yard in Iaeger) creep across the massive Trace Fork Viaduct in Amonate, Va., along the former Norfolk & Western Dry Fork Branch. Originating at... (more)

High up in the sky at Amonate, Va., No. 745 eases across the massive Trace Fork viaduct on the former Norfolk and Western Dry Fork Branch, while trekking north toward Iaeger with a train of emptie... (more)

NS #8028 pulls a long string of empty coal cars westbound through Connelly Springs, NC. The train has just left the Plant Marshall Steam plant located on Lake Norman near Charlotte.

A rare visitor to Asheville, UP #8069 leads westbound empty hopper train 745 through the interlocking at Russell.

All is quiet and peaceful in the quaint town of Berwind, West Virginia, until the sound of flanges squealing and a horn echoing in the deep mountain valley, shatters the morning stillness with the... (more)

A slower coal train sits in the hole waiting on a faster time freight to pass. The classic signals are soon history as their replacements lay trackside waiting to be installed.

NS 8889 is NS's first C40-9W and their first wide-nose locomotive