Passing farms in Watauga. A westbound Norfolk & Western Train 202, "The Virginia Creeper", passes a dairy farm in Watauga, VA, en route back to her base in Abingdon.

This rat... (more)

One of the museum's primary workhorses recently got a cosmetic overhaul. Now, contractors are working inside the historic roundhouse to finish out a mechanical overhaul. New power assemblies sit i... (more)

N&W 611 pulls onto the former Virginian main at Hurt. She's operating as NS 957 with a short mixed freight on a ferry run to Roanoke in preparation of the 4th of July 2015 weekend trips. Everythin... (more)

Norfolk & Western U30B 8518 idles on a turntable track nest to the three-stall roundhouse in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The N&W bought 110 of 295 total U30B’s prod... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. Fir... (more)

N&W 1218 has cut away from her train and heads west to Shaffers Crossing for servicing. The large crowd of riders are detraining and heading for their cars.

N&W 1218 has drawn a crowd this morning as she prepares to leave Greensboro NC on a June 1989 excursion.

N&W 611 has just crested the eastbound Blue Ridge Grade and the engineer has backed off the throttle. It's easy going from here to Lynchburg.

N&W 611 exits Pembroke Tunnel eastbound along the New River.

On July 31, 1983, Norfolk Southern operated a round trip steam special between Chicago and Fort Wayne, IN with N&W 611. The train is seen being moved through Chicago's Pullman Junction by a GP38A... (more)

N&W 611 brings a caboose hop out of the North Carolina Transportation Museum. Although this is still along museum grounds, it almost looks like it could be out on an excursion.

N&W J Class Nº611 is at Spencer, North Carolina shortly before the trip to Ashville on the morning of April 10, 2016.

N&W J 611 climbs the Loops near Old Fort, North Carolina during it's April 10, 2016 trip to Ashville.