1218 has just exited the 1832 ft long uphill grade Swannanoa Tunnel. The engine has crested the grade, which also is the Eastern Continental Divide, but the majority of the consist is still in the... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s first Heritage Unit, GP59 4610, was built in November 1989. It had been here in High Point for a few days doing local switching in the early 1990’s. While on my lunch brea... (more)

N&W 611 and Nickel Plate 587 are backing their train past the East End Shops into Roanoke Station to unload passengers. They have just completed a run from Bluefield, WV. This was one of many succ... (more)

First generation diesels in the “Dead Line” in the former Virginian Railway yard in south Roanoke. SW1200RS 1202 is ex Illinois Terminal 776 built in November 1955. GP9 2491 is ex Nickel Plate... (more)

By 1959 diesels had replaced the J class 4-8-4's on Norfolk and Western passenger trains. The few J's that remained continued to earn revenue for the railroad by hauling freight and even powered l... (more)

Former Chesapeake & Ohio GP38 3862 and former Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 4156 rest at Raleigh Yard in Beckley West Virginia on a sunny October day. The covered shanty with a coal stove would be small... (more)

N&W 1218 has cut away from her train and heads west to Shaffers Crossing for servicing. The large crowd of riders are detraining and heading for their cars.

In 1954 Southern Railway donated J-Class 2-8-0 #542 to Tanglewood Park near Clemmons NC. There it sat deteriorating for 37 years. In 1991 a deal was struck between the North Carolina Transportatio... (more)

A solid trio of Southern Ry livery, lead by GP50 7067, rolls south with a mixed freight.

1218 has conquered the famous Southern Ry loops over the Blue Ridge mountains and is pulling into the yard in Asheville NC.

Former N&W SD40-2, 1639 and 6129, bring an eastbound coal train into Bluefield yard past N&W 611 waiting on an out-bound track to go west with a ferry run to Portsmouth, OH. Several freight cars h... (more)

Southern 4501 is being serviced in Richlands Va.

1218 is eastbound at Pearisburg, VA in route from Bluefield to Roanoke with a coal train.

Running long hood forward, in N&W and Southern tradition, NS 8560 highballs a TOFC train southbound through High Point.

A view not often seen. The tender of N&W 611 sits alone outside the roundhouse while 611 is being worked on inside one of the roundhouse bays. In the background, Lehigh Valley Coal Co 0-6-0 saddle... (more)