Original NS train No. 63 is stepping across the bridge over Middle Creek near the community of Banks, NC, just south of Raleigh, NC in December 1970 enroute Charlotte, NC. The cleared land in the... (more)

Over a year prior to Southern Railway acquiring the "original" Norfolk Southern Rwy on Jan 1, 1974, upgrading had already quietly begun on the NS. We are at MP 4 on the Fayetteville Branch just ... (more)

This unit later received a high nose and became Southern 194, NS 194, now Otter Tail Valley 194. Kodachrome II, Yashica TL.