Class A 1238 rolls downgrade at a good clip with a westbound freight bound for Roanoke. This is one of my favorite shots as the fireman has just begun to stoke the fire adding contrast to the stea... (more)

The smoke from Y6a 2167 lingers as grimy class A 1219 steams through the station with a westbound freight near the end of the locomotive's run.

1218 leads an eastbound fan trip through a curve near the recycling plant at Montvale.

NW 1218 leading an excursion at Azalea, just east of Asheville.

NW 1218 and 611 running side by side westbound through Christiansburg, VA as seen from the US 460 Business bridge. These activities were a part of the 1987 NRHS convention held in Roanoke.

1218, sans train, gets watered at the west end of Kinney Yard in Lynchburg, VA.

Shown heading east out of Kansas City, late 1980's.

Two of the N&W's finest displayed near their birthplace.

1218 rests comfortably under the Claytor Pavilion at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

The 1218 and train is turned at Fort Wayne and is now heading this railfan trip back to Chicago.

I was eleven when I took this my first time seeing the "A" in action. I could barely keep the camera steady.

This was a great chase between Chicago and Fort Wayne, Indiana. This was on the trip east. I lost two tires on the car I was driving on this trip.

1218 eastbound at Forest, VA, meets two NS trains at Forest, VA. Middle train is a long-haul train in the siding at Forest waiting to continue on to Roanoke. Train on left is a local freight on ... (more)

NS CEO Robert Claytor in the cab of 1218 on its maiden run to Roanoke after restoration in the Birmingham steam shop

Norfolk & Western #1218 at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The photo was take with a Canon 20D with a EF-S 10-22 lens to get the entire engine in the picture.