Westbound NS freight arriving in Roanoke, VA behind C39-8 #8616 || Sept. 1999
Rare bird on 571, only a dozen or so C39-8s left on the system
A C39-8 with a little damage to the short hood awaits its crew at Croxton Yard. This awesome unit would be the leader for my first road train that I ever ran.
NS 8616 on the Mt. Vernon Sub approaching the Chester Sub.
Southern Style, these were new in 1987 and a sign of things to come. In a few years the long hood forward practice would end and years later the wide cabs would come.
A quickly becoming rare C39-8 leads train 714 as it sits in the siding at Whitehorn crossing at Bulls Gap
