Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.
Retired and sold for scrap, NS 8717 spends its last days being picked over for parts before being cut up for scrap.
With small amounts of snow still on the ground on this frigid day, the West Local heads directly into the golden glow of the late afternoon sun on it’s way to Loudon, TN with an unusually long t... (more)
On the last day of July 2013, Gainesville-Greenville turn P8G, behind two standard cab motors and twenty cars, ducks under the ancient Southern Railway cantilever at Cornelia just prior to sunrise... (more)
NS 8717 works its way into the yard on a beautiful Sunday morning after clearing the signal at Junior Avenue.
A rough looking NS 8717 leads the grain train out of Shenandoah on a beautiful winter morning. Hard to believe no pictures exist of this engine on RP as long as this motor has been around.
