(Original) Norfolk Southern Baldwin AS-416 #1608 idles outside the diesel shop at Glenwood Yard, Raleigh, NC awaiting its' next assignment.

(Original) Norfolk Southern Extra 1617 South has arrived at Becker Sand & Gravel near Lillington, NC and will work the quarry supplying empties and picking up loads of sand and gravel. Note the e... (more)

(Original) Norfolk Southern Extra 1617 South has just crossed the Cape Fear River bridge at Lillington, NC. on the Fayetteville Branch. After crossing the river, the train will take a long cut of... (more)

Three 'original' NS Baldwins work on the Gulf Turn at Duncan, NC in 1969.

A pair of Norfolk Southern Baldwins work at Star, NC in 1971.

"Original" NS Baldwin AS-416 at Keene Yard in Durham, March 1971. This locomotive was retired when the original NS was merged into the Southern Railway.

A wreck train heads east (timetable north) on the "original" Norfolk Southern between Raleigh and Chocowinity with Engine 1616 and derrick #900. Today NS 1616 is on display at the North Carolina T... (more)

A wreck train heads east (timetable north) on the "original" Norfolk Southern between Raleigh and Chocowinity with Engine 1616 and derrick #900. Today NS 1616 is on display at the North Carolina T... (more)

NS 1616 posed on a photo freight at the NC Transportation Museum.

The date: 1965. A local off the "real" Norfolk Southern arrives in the wee hours of the morning behind a sharp looking Baldwin. (Recreated during NCTM's Rail Days night photo shoot.)

After Southern's 1974 take over of the "old NS" the Baldwins were rounded up and sent to Chattanooga to have any remaining fuel removed from their tanks before they were sold off.

Norfolk Southern 1616 basks in the sun with a short train.

No, this is not the orginial Norfolk Southern as we know it. This road was actually a shortline that was acquired by the Southern and later evolved into todays Norfolk Southern.