Conpit Storms: As a nasty thunderstorm falls over Johnstown, PA in the distance, manifest train NS 39G heads west through Conpit out of the rain and toward Pittsburgh.

A quartet of GE locomotives on southbound train 275 (Harrisburg, PA-Norfolk, VA) at Dale Avenue.

NS 18W makes its way into Roanoke's North Yard for some work. The Salem VA Medical Center can be seen on the hill.

NS 18W rolls east through Shawsville, Virginia.

A Chattanooga, TN to Greenville, SC freight crosses over Sweetwater Creek, of which the largest craft brewery in the state is named for.

This time of year provides excellent morning westbound light from the conductor's side at John Farm in Shawsville. So I go there as much as I can in the mornings. Here NS 22A rumbles up grade with... (more)

CP/NS train 931 passing CPC 131 at Wadhams, NY.

NS 11Z (Binghamton, NY - Enola, PA) with NS 1068 Erie trailing. Note the PRR CPL on the ground next to the new signal.

Southbound at Packer St. with NS 1068 ERIE on train.

ES44AC NS 8069 & SD70ACe NS 1131 are the power on a 55-car train that is eastbound on CN's Montreal Sub.

A late convert. Norfolk Southern (along with CN) was a late convert to AC power. Whereas most Class I's were buying AC power starting during the mid-1990's, NS only bought their first AC un... (more)

NS 8069 leads 14q through Erlanger passing underneath the signal. It doesn't look the same here anymore since the Southern Signals came down an year ago

Before capturing heritage unit 8104, a few practice trains went north giving us an opportunity to fine tune our lighting set up for the main event which was right after this N22.

With a Gevo & 70ace on the head end and 3 macs on the tail end C90 brings in 100 empties to load at the mine.

A pair of fairly new GE ES44AC's lead a loaded coal drag over the mountainous Appalachia District through Southwest Virginia.