Westbound at 17 st Altoona Pa.
NS 996 heads south on the old Southern mainline just below the VA/NC state line with an ex-SOU GP38-2 and research car NS 32.
On a pleasant summer afternoon, No. 996 rumbles up the New River through McCoy, Va., on the rails of the ex-VGN, with a pair of brand new BNSF ES44C4's that has been undergoing adhesion testing at... (more)
This month, Norfolk Southern tested brand new General Electric ES44C4 locomotives on lease from the BNSF Railway. Operating as No. 996, the move is depicted rolling through pastoral Kumis, Va., al... (more)
The NS BT90 crew is piloting Amtrak 22 running as 996 on the final leg of turning the train via the NS Miami Cut Branch as they back down to CP 286 on the Chicago mainline at CP Oak. The pocket-z... (more)
After finishing Adhesion testing on Starkey hill.996 returns to Roanoke to tie the train down in track number 14 South Yard.
Norfolk Southern 4001, a Progress Rail model PR43C built from an NS SD50, has the NS 996 test train stopped at Goodfield, Illinois on Tuesday June 9, 2009. At the time of the photo, the locomotive... (more)
Power to become 27J
NS 996 with High & Wide loads arrives at Chattanooga.