RSD-12 and RS-11 team-up to sort coal.

I liked N&W's blue, but with enough grime, it took on an earth tones look, as on 1958-vintage 374.

Norfolk and Western locomotive 2156, Class Y6a, a compound Mallet, sits on display at the Museum's first night photography event. This locomotive was loaned to the Virginia Museum of Transporta... (more)

GP30's for the 30th: Prior to the announcement of the heritage unit fleet, this consist was arranged in October 2011 for a special photo shoot of images to be used for Norfolk Southern's 30th anni... (more)

The 611 in a driving rain on Memorial Day weekend 2021, accelerating out of Groff's Grove

With the world slowly escaping Covid, 2021 also marks the return of N&W superpower to the Strasburg Railroad. After making its way out of Leaman Place, J Class #611 accelerates up the Pumpkinville... (more)

Alco Product: One of the highlights of the VA Museum of Transportation is their sizeable collection of rare T6 switchers (they've got two!).

Charging up-hill out of Leaman Place, NW 611 billows a plume of dark smoke on its way back to Strasburg. Built in 1950, the bullet-like locomotive has been fully restored and is the last class J l... (more)

In October 1965, steam equipped Wabash Geep 486 and N&W 3494 (ex-Wabash 494) leads the Chicago-St. Louis Banner Blue at Granite City, Illinois. Photo from my collection, the photographer Al Hol... (more)

After getting photos of two different Norfolk Southern heritage units leading trains, it looked like the 7:00 Strasburg train would possibly operate in storm light. Those conditions didn’t exact... (more)

Steam Show: Watching N&W 611 leave Roanoke on one of its last mainline excursions was the first time I'd seen a proper display of mainline steam power.

No. 611 leads the Amish Edition of the Powhatan Arrow through the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside on a wet spring day.

Ready the Sun - cue the clouds! Can we get a plume? And... action! Sometimes puzzle pieces come together!

Downpour!

N&W No. 475 leads an excursion through the bucolic Amish countryside in Lancaster County, Pa, in the midst of a heavy downpour. Alas - this is the Strasburg Rail Road; ... (more)

While on loan to the Pennsylvania Railroad for testing, Norfolk & Western's 4-8-4 No. 611 makes a visit to Strasburg, cutting away from the PRR main by the freight house at Leaman Place. Yeah... ... (more)