A hopper train arrives just in time to capture a late afternoon scene of downtown Roanoke. Both yellow brick buildings were once N&W offices and the Tudor-style building behind them is the Hotel R... (more)

N&W 1151, one of the "lost engines of Roanoke", sits outside the Virginia Museum of Transportation below the Fifth Street bridge. This locomotive and several others were recently "saved" from the ... (more)

A KCSM "ECO710 Repower" mother/slug sits near Norfolk Southern's Roanoke Shop waiting on testing. The sharp looking outfit will eventually undergo adhesion testing on NS's Starkey Hill in Roanoke.... (more)

Wabash E8 #1009 has been in Roanoke for quite awhile. I also am led to believe that this was EMD's 10,000th production unit. Here it is, in Roanoke, 25 years ago.

Note: We didn't find out... (more)

Progress Rail PR43C #4000 is on it's maiden test trip up Starkey Hill in Southwest Roanoke, VA. Starkey is the test hill for the NS Research Dept. Closest thing I've seen to an SD45 in a long ti... (more)

Progress Rail PR43C #4000 is on it's maiden test trip up Starkey Hill in Southwest Roanoke, VA. Starkey is the test hill for the NS Research Dept. Closest thing I've seen to an SD45 in a long ti... (more)

A driver is ready to start an engine to haul one of the loaded coal trains seen at NS South yard in Roanoke.

NS 9267 and NS 9761 head empty coal hoppers west under blue winter sky with two contrails.

After terrible snowfalls for last two days, NS Roanoke South yard is still full of loaded coal hoppers. Power units look busy to take them eastward one after another. The Star Line Trolley (red/wh... (more)

A light engine move (8680 + 8721) makes its way toward the South Yard at JK. This view, as seen from the Walnut Avenue bridge, has changed a fair amount over the years. Today the track the engines... (more)

A grain train begins its trip southward toward Winston-Salem behind a C40-9/SD40-2/B23-7 consist.

The pushers on a northbound coal train pass the old N&W offices in downtown Roanoke. Some 25 car lengths ahead of the pushers the train can be seen veering off to the north, heading up the Shenand... (more)

Ex-SOU B23-7 in front of the old N&W office buildings in downtown Roanoke.

NS Operation Lifesaver GP60 7140 on a football passenger special at Roanoke, VA in 1998.