A northbound mixed freight is rumbling across the lake on a beautiful spring day back when when we thought of high horsepower B-Bs as a recipe for speed. When will be regular have C-Cs with 900-... (more)

After squiggling down the creek from Bluefield this auto rack train is cruising along the New River.

Back when NS had this real fetish about running long hood first this northbound freight is rattling across the famous bridge with a (then) foreign unit.

Train #112 was an eastbound train but on this route segment it is running west on a nice fall day.

NS did what I consider a tasteful job of renumbering when they acquired their portion of Conrail. This unit is working a mine run on the former Interstate. It's still around, rebuilt to 6354 and... (more)

After my previous posting the locomotive stayed in our area for a while and here is a photo of it idling the day away.

Between East Drive and North Church the former N&W followed the narrow confines of the Middle Fork of the Holston River, at this point just a large creek, more or less. Sharp curves before and af... (more)

I posted the helpers first. Here is the front of that train I uploaded earlier. Back in the coal days. Back when there were locomotive on the roster not numbered in the 4000s, LOL.

A GP38-2 is on the point and there are helpers in the middle with these guys kicked back and rattling along in Run 8 all the way to Big Cut and the top of the grade. Back in the coal days.

Westbound local has finished its work and is racing home to Bristol in one of many small towns along the line. Nowadays it's six axle power.

Still seems odd that it was forty years ago this WB had an early repaint from NW in the lead. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Back when the EB local ran in daylight it was passing the little Methodist Church in this tiny former "tank town". Alas my foreground tree is no more.

Local has come down from Raleigh on its weekday journey. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Originally SOU, this model was unique to this system. I've always wondered why they changed the high short hood from the B23-7. Guess we'll never know. I think the extra lights SOU added probab... (more)

Originally SOU, this model was unique to this system. Here one is leading a mixed freight that ran with an EB number on this line. So much has changed. The "back track" is totally gon... (more)