The first SD70ACC, 1800, leads NS 820 eastbound through Pembroke, Va on the Whitethorne District.

The first SD70ACC, #1800, leads NS 16T in the last light of day eastbound through Fort Chiswell, Va on the Pulaski District.

NS #1800 glides along the banks of the French Broad river at Squaw Valley near Del Rio, TN with train 123 (Decatur, IL-Linwood, NC) in tow.

Yellow and grey NS 1800 leads NS 17G over the crossing at Gray Station, PA.

Heads or Tails?

While 67Z was stopped at CP MO to cut his helper off, I booked it into Lilly. An eastbound manifest came out of the cut at Cassandra to the west, and being blocked se... (more)

Boring History

NS 1800 pokes out of the Allegheny Tunnel on its way west.

This tunnel is actually the oldest of the three bores through the summit of the Allegheny Escarpm... (more)

NS 64T rounds the curve at the former Valley Forge Reading Railroad station with NS's flagship SD70ACC leading.

You'd Think I Would Have Learned My Lesson

...after last year's adventure to the west leg of Horseshoe Curve in the snow, right?

Wrong.

In spite of 4 inches of ... (more)

"PTSD"

Westbound NS 279 with SD70ACC 1800 leading through Rochester, PA on the Ft. Wayne Line.

NS 207 picks up track speed as it passes a hog farm in Oliver, Ga. The train is powered by recent EMD and GE rebuilds.

As jockeys move containers from Mason Yard to waiting ships and stacker prepare to start unloading the train, NS I08 backs it's last cut of cars into Mason Yard for an end to a long night for the... (more)

Norfolk Southern Train I08 has just finished yarding its train at Mason Yard as they bring the engines out to tie them down after a long night run down the Savannah District. A Stacker is seen go... (more)

NS SD70ACC No1800 at Atlanta, Georgia shows off the lines of the new cab installed by Progress Rail of Muncie, Indiana earlier in the year. Of the NS SD70 fleet, 29 units remain active which are s... (more)

Under a steady drizzle, NS 282 stands at Spring in Atlanta, Georgia with the class SD70ACC rebuild No1800 in the lead on this Veterans Day as GZ02 slides by heading north from East Point with SD40... (more)