NS 202 thunders onto the single track at CP Lipscomb after NS 201 clears into the siding.

Steam Ball: N&W 611 smokes up, as it heads northbound through Stuarts Draft, Virginia, as it passes the athletic and baseball complex of the town.

Past Prospects: In a scene that is no longer possible, UP 8571 leads manifest 13Z southbound through Stuarts Draft, Virginia, as the train passes the iconic N&W CPLs that have stood the test of t... (more)

NS V83 get the clear at Stuarts Draft to run around its train and hold clear in the siding for a 15T who is fast approaching from the North shortly after sunrise.

Drafting Power: NS 3664 leads NS 11Z south out of the siding, after meeting NS 12Z, past the N&W CPLs at Stuarts Draft, which are due to be taken down on May 30, as new signals, as seen in the ph... (more)

Dashing and Drafting: NS 9740 leads NS M1Z south through the N&W CPLs at Lipscomb, located in Stuarts Draft, VA, as the train tries to make up time as it gets closer to Roanoke.

The sound of AC traction GEs making track speed fill the night air as the headlights of southbound NS 11Z shine on a clear signal at Stuarts Draft.

Good as N&W: NS 1067, the Reading Heritage unit, that was just released from the shops in Altoona after getting washed and repainted, heads south through Stuarts Draft, Virginia, as NS 11Z contin... (more)

Briefly following a heavy thunderstorm, Norfolk Southern train 12Z (Knoxville, TN-Enola, PA manifest) rolls through the farmland, near Elkton, Virginia northbound on the NS Hagerstown District. Lo... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 12Z (Knoxville, TN-Binghamton, NY manifest) rolls through the crop fields in Stuarts Draft, Virginia northbound on the NS Roanoke District.

The days are numbered for the old N&W CPL signals on Norfolk Southern's Roanoke District between Roanoke and Front Royal, as a few replacements have popped up but have not yet been cutover in othe... (more)

With the sun setting into the mountains sky, NS 747 heads down the mainline at Stuarts Draft on the Norfolk Southern Shenandoah Valley

With engineer Mitch Guilliams behind the throttle, NS 12Z flies northbound through Stuarts Draft, VA on a snowy, winter morning. Photo taken on February 7, 2021.

NS 12Z rolls North at Wilda in a Stuarts Draft, Va bound for Binghamton, Ny on a very nice fall morning on the valley line.. With the train originating out of Roanoke, 12Z the counterpart to 11Z ... (more)

NS 202 splits the N&W Color Position Lights at CP Stuarts Draft on a beautiful, summer morning. Photo taken from the Farmers Crossing on July 11, 2020.