N&W 710 leads a GP9 - RS36 - GP9 - RS11 lashup on a westbound, crossing the NF&D at Suffolk, Virginia circa 1970. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)

Oh....THAT intermodal...known by other names to those on the ground that morning, unkind names for sure. #611 returns to the NS mainlines with this run, dream come true for many...and seemed to o... (more)

N&W GP40 1356 - CRIP GP40 4704 - UP U50C 5033 lead a train into North Yard in Denver, Colorado in the mid 1970's. My father has several pictures of run-through N&W power in Denver. While the pow... (more)

475 pulling in to the steam shops after a day of pulling trains through the Amish farmlands back and forth.

Iron horse meets real horse at a farm in Marshall, VA, during a Manassas-Front Royal excursion.

The last time 1218 ventured out onto the main line: for an event at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke. Here she sits on display as an NS freight passes eastbound.

Coal empties from the north are Roanoke-bound crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In typical Norfolk & Western fashion, an SD40-2 leads the train long hood fo... (more)

Freight Cars, Freight Cars, Everywhere

There’s a lot to see in this November 19, 1976 view looking across Conrail’s yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Beside an excellent cross s... (more)

"Homeward bound...I wish I was." N&W 2156 continues its slow journey back to its museum in St. Louis, after five years at home in Roanoke.