After several days of extended frigid temperatures, these Norfolk Southern locomotives are parked for the evening with their engines idling. December 2010.
A set of all standard cab power rests for the night in Gainesville with the Amtrak station directly to the right. It was nice to see a Conrail painted locomotive in the middle of the consist. ... (more)
NS V07 pulls a string of containers back to Crewe after interchange with the Commonwealth Railway.
NS 3535 provides the solo power needed on NS Local P22 the "Aiken Local" as he works the siding at Langley. The conductor seen riding the front of NS 3535 is a current trainee. The first switch se... (more)
Woman vs. Machine! This IS Street Running! NS 191 with a rare Dash 8-32B, usually seen on Yard or Local Jobs, leading the way makes its way down the middle of 6th Street as an impatient fem... (more)
Twins! NS 191 had a very surprising and nice leader on the point of Today's train. I had stopped in Langley to originally attempt to catch the K&T switcher in action, but instead caught Loc... (more)
NS 3548 sits off the main with the empties to be returned SB to Roanoke, VA. Ex-BN CEFX 7077 sits in the second motor position as the Shenandoah Valley begins to experience some fall foliage.
Local V74 heads south between Starkey and Boones Mill. As always, V74 is running with "good" power today in the form of a B32-8 and SD40-2 (6128).
Two new trainees has just received their first cab ride as the work train continues cab first towards Thacker WV.
An increasingly rare B32-8 works the Nitro Yard on a sunny winter afternoon.
This pair of NS B32-8 engines have shutdown for the weekend. July 2010.
Ex-Southern, NS 3561 leads the empties headed back to Roanoke, VA.
NS 3524 & 5608 tied down for the night with a track geometry train across from the old Wabash Railroad station. The geometry units are research slug NS 34 and research car NS 33.
