A common visitor to the Seaboard System yard due to the joint ownership of the Winston Salem Southbound line from Winston Salem, NC.

My little buddy in the background carried me to many great places.

One more pusher on one more coal train in the days when cabeese were required in Virginia. Roaring up the long grade approaching the tunnel where we grilled hot dogs, basked in the sun and waited... (more)

In the nondescript sandhills an inbound trains arrives, having originated on the jointly owned Winston Salem Southbound. Four units are much greater power than normal on this one.

After the merger mixed power is assigned to a helper. The last N&W paint scheme, though somber, was a huge improvement over the despised "NW". Photo by Dave Petke.

Just a catch along the way in one of many trips thru W-S.

Helper set entering the engine facility back when the yard was huge, coal trains were frequent and the skyline in the background was vastly different.

The "Bluefield Turn" is departing. This model preceded what was arguably the best 4-axle unit of the second generation of diesels. This is the business end and the front on NS. In tho... (more)

The "Bluefield Turn" is departing.

Now actually Norfolk Southern but still lettered for the predecessor of my choice, this unit is shuffling cars in a place you don't think of as Norfolk and Western country. But it was.

Hard to imagine that thirty nine years ago we had come to find some of the last GP9s on the NS. They had seemed to never go away and now generations have come and gone but in many places this mod... (more)

Two Hoosier classics, the Coop mill and an ex-Wabash "Tyco" caboose on this hard working local. No name of the slide but believed to be by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Local working with a unit had not gotten the "Fishwicky Icky" paint job, just the previous crappy hamburger-era stuff. I understand the late gentleman was not a bad guy. Note to CEOs: ... (more)

Norfolk Western, NW GP9 880-899 -U33C 8074-SD40-2 6195, with eastbound GR14 on the ex-B&O Keystone sub at, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. March 24, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

N&W 611 about 4 hours before her return home to Roanoke, Va