Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)

Articulated - A picture is worth a thousand words. 1218 has been serviced at Auville Yard, on the Dry Fork Branch, and is leaving town via the west leg of the Iaeger Wye. She will continue the wes... (more)

Oh the diesel history captured in this photo! They served well for many years but for most of them time has run out. This was just some of the units stored in the former Virginian Railway yard in... (more)

End of the line for former N&W Alco C630 131. She and an unidentified sister are being cut up at Cycle Systems in Roanoke. The 3000 HP unit, built in 1966 and originally numbered 1131, spent her l... (more)

Ready to Go! N&W 1218 will shortly be towed out of the Roanoke Transportation Museum and then on to Birmingham Alabama to be overhauled. Sections of panel track have been laid into the museum fro... (more)

Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)

Diesel scrap and a little red boat...N&W GP9 743 and 797 are well on their way to oblivion in this shot of Cycle Systems Scrap Yard.

Several years ago the "Lost Engines of Roanoke" were removed from a scrap yard in Roanoke, where they had been since the 1950's, and relocated to several groups in several locations. N&W... (more)

NKP 765 is backing past the coaling tower toward her train at the Hinton Station. She was turned on the wye and serviced at Meadow Creek 12 miles to the west. This was standard procedure after the... (more)

Bridge to nowhere...This is all that's left of an industrial siding off the former Clinchfield RR just north of Marion NC. The siding served the American Thread Company, now known as Coats North A... (more)

The "Blue Hour" is setting in as the sun has dipped below the mountains to the west of Roanoke. Getting ready to head east is a mixed freight train lead by N&W 1744. The famous Blue Ridg... (more)

Train wreck at Superior WV – photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. The railroad calls this location Huger which is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Divisi... (more)

Night is falling at Hinton WV. We are cold, wet and tired but extremely happy. It's 1985 and we have been chasing a steam engine pulling a loaded coal train all day long in the snow! 614 has been ... (more)

Steam Fan Overload! NKP 587, N&W 611 and N&W 1218 make their way east through downtown Roanoke past the former N&W office building on the left. They will proceed east past the East End Shops and ... (more)

Ten months after the devastating flood that brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 is sitting at the Roanoke East End Shops where she has been cleaned up... (more)