Q08 passes over Route 23/58/421, the main highway between Duffied, Va. and Gate City, Va. approaching Speers Ferry, Va.
One of my favorite NS locomotives and my favorite Southern Signal makes for one of my most favorite personal photos. Here we see 221 going through "Walters Control Point" just North of Downtown Bu... (more)
NS 155 rips through the small town of McBean, Georgia along the Richmond/Burke County lines with a fairly short train in tow behind a pair of SD60 standard cabs with the lead unit being originally... (more)
NS 220 passes through Mableton with a nice consist, the train is just getting back up to speed after its setout at Whittaker yard and is on its last lap to Atlanta.
Q08 slowly rolls eastbound out of the Appalachia Yard Limit as it appraoches the Big Stone Gap signal. The track at the left is the CSX connector constructed in 1986 to allow CSX to utilize NS tra... (more)
NS 380, with the LY01 crew taking it from the yard to CP 139, where it will pick up the crew that will take it down the West Virginia Secondary, round the curve by Harper Rd.
An interesting long-hood-forward SD60 leads NS 897 towards Harrisburg which was photographed just a bit later. The website for the... (more)
The conductor leans out of cab window, taking in the view, while the engineer eases this long-hood forward empty coal train over this beautiful ex-Reading bridge... Southern Pennsylvania Railroad'... (more)
It is rare to have a westbound on the Lurgan Branch this late in the day... It is even rarer to have an SD60 leading long-hood forward!
NS 6641 seen backing onto its train at Debutts Yd.