After getting another short bath in a thunderstorm, NS Train 957 with N&W 611 on the point is thundering past the classic, and soon to be removed Norfolk & Western Bracket CPL Signal at CP Concord... (more)

N&W 611 is now running as NS Train 957 as it brings its 21 car train around the curve and upgrade on the south leg of the wye off the Old Line at Poe.

The dust to the fireman's side of the e... (more)

There’s no doubt that the highlight of the 1983 NRHS convention was the night photo session at Richmond’s famed triple crossing. Conducted by the late Jim Boyd, the scene featured a Chesapeake... (more)

Homeward Bound

After spending a few weeks in North Carolina, Norfolk & Western J-Class 4-8-4 611 is headed home to Roanoke. Until she gets into the city of her birth, the big Nor... (more)

The N&W Class J 611 heads north over the Dan River on a beautiful Sunday morning.

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 crosses the "Curvy Bridge" (as known by the train crews) west of Goodview, Virginia, with eastbound excursion train 958, the "Roanoker".

The small village of Goodview, Virginia, was awoken just before sunrise this morning by an impressive display of steam from N&W class J number 611 as it led train 955 along the former Virginian ma... (more)

On a bitter cold February morning N&W Class J 611 rides the Hurt Connection between the NS ex Virginian mainline to the NS ex Southern mainline on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transpor... (more)

The small village of Goodview, Virginia, was awoken just before sunrise this morning by an impressive display of steam from N&W class J number 611 as it led train 955 along the former Virginian ma... (more)

Where it all began. This was the last tunnel before the N&W reached the promised land to begin accessing the rich coal fields of Southwest Virginia and Southern West Virginia. Near here is where ... (more)

A "Goodview" of the Virginian on the Virginian - captured in a Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Goodview, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: NS 1069
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 03, 2015

The CPL's are dying.

The Color Position Lights, which safely guarded untold thousand of trains and their crews in their lifetime were installed by the Norfolk & Western railroad in the 1960's b... (more)