It's late afternoon and the sun has sunk behind the mountains to the west as another loaded coal train negotiates the sharp curves and the eastbound Elkhorn grade heading for Bluefield West Virgin... (more)
In less than three years, the locomotive and the unit rock train in this photo have been purged from the Norfolk Southern system. A former Southern unit is one home rails as it disturbs a flock o... (more)
Across the barren fields of central Georgia, NS 152 with a trio of SD60's heads north slowly starting into the dip down in the siding at Dooly having met NS G61 and will be waiting on one more sou... (more)
It's late afternoon in the West Virginia hollers. The sun sets behind the mountains early here. After a long day of chasing trains back and forth along Route 52 in McDowell County, it's time to he... (more)
A evening drive past NS's yard in Jacksonville revealed the last SD60 received by Norfolk Southern some nearly 30 plus years ago now relegated to local service. It didn't seem like that long ago,... (more)
NS SD60 6700 sports the lead position with train, 932 in Atlanta, Georgia on the night of October 6, 2016. The carrier's SD60 fleet has been facing an unstable future with traffic patterns up and ... (more)
Empty Scherer coal train 735 stands at Jefferson Street after a crew change as the lead BNSF SD70ACe 8576 looks north while an empty Herzog train with NS SD60 6700 waits it's turn. Meanwhile a nor... (more)
Although I finally caught 119 in decent light in Belmont, I managed to botch the shot and was forced to give chase. Fortunately the train wasn't in any hurry to get anywhere (they had quite a tra... (more)
NS has been releasing there standard cab SD70's and SD60's I knew one was going to come down here. And today it did. the last time I saw one was last year and with a friendly crew NS 119 comes by ... (more)
A standard cab SD60, slated for eventual rebuild into an SD60E, leads an early 154 through a downtown Buford decorated for the beautiful Christmas season.
Charles Town, WV 2/9/2013 - Norfolk Southern SD-60 6700 hits the NS/CSX diamond as it crosses the former B&O, now the CSX Shenandoah Subdivision. The southbound train is 37Q with an assortment of ... (more)