After getting another short bath in a thunderstorm, NS Train 957 with N&W 611 on the point is thundering past the classic, and soon to be removed Norfolk & Western CPL Signal at CP Concord on the ... (more)

N&W 611 with NS Train 957 is making great time across the rolling Virginia countryside on the NS Blue Ridge District as thunderstorms fire along the horizon, and behind us.

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N&W 611 is now running as NS Train 957 as it brings its 21 car train around the curve and upgrade on the south leg of the wye off the Old Line at Poe.

The dust to the fireman's side of the e... (more)

The excursion NS Train 958 is making great time on its trip into Petersburg, VA and 611 smokes it up passing under an overpass outside Sutherland.

Locomotive: NW 611

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After a crew change in the aptly named municipality, NS Train 958 is back underway with the steamlined lady barking out of town on the NS Norfolk District.

Locomotive: NW 611

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After being flagged by a signal at Jenkins, NS Train 958 was moving under restricted speed. That is, until they knocked down the clear signal about 1,500 feet west of our location, and the engine... (more)

NS Train 958 passes the venerable N&W CPL bracket signals at CP Bowler as it rolls down home rails with a clean stack on the NS Blue Ridge District.

Locomotive: NW 611

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Looking a bit dirtier than yesterday, N&W 611 brings NS Train 958 past the classic N&W CPL at CP Concord, putting on a great show, as it did all weekend on the NS Blue Ridge District.

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A slug set and another pair of units for local power sit at the C&O Sandy Hook Yard near the coaling tower as another yard job toils on with an SD50-3 for power.

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The "Queen of the Kudzu", N&W J Class #611 brings NS Train 957 west down the NS Blue Ridge District pulling the 21 car "Cavalier" back to Lynchburg on the return leg of a round... (more)

Moments after my friend Luke Lohrmeyer and I first laid eyes on Norfolk and Western 611, NS Train 957 stomps out of Massie past MP 132 at restricted speed delayed in block after stopping to correc... (more)

A spectacular sunset explodes in the western sky behind UP Train 2CNRFG 04 passing over Santa Fe Jct. on the KCT Kaw River Bridge High Line. This would have been fine without the train, but sure,... (more)

After dropping all but 10 cars off at UP Neff Yard, UP Train AASFX 07 heads through Troost off the Low Line for Fairfax, KS, the train's final destination.

Locomotives: UP 8350, UP 5226

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Severe thunderstorms are firing north of the city and as a pair of SD40-2's bring BNSF Train T KCS1 07R, also referred to as the "Santa Fe 112 Job" through Santa Fe Jct. The KCT searchl... (more)

Now on the Former CB&Q "Centennial Cutoff", Amtrak Train #952 is showing Maxwell the markers as it blasts east on the freight only BNSF Brookfield Sub. The 1953-built "Kansas City ... (more)