The CPL's are dying.

The Color Position Lights, which safely guarded untold thousand of trains and their crews in their lifetime were installed by the Norfolk & Western railroad in the 1960's b... (more)

N&W 611 heads heads through the Blue Ridge Mountains with a Roanoke to Lynchburg round trip excursion on 7/3/2015

As the sun lights up the iconic face of N&W CPL's, N&W J Class 611 splits the intermediate signals at Montvale, Virginia as NS 958 makes it's way eastbound to Lynchburg.

The Eastbound leg of the N&W 611 excursion to Walton has just turned at the wye and passes under the coaling tower at Vicker.

Our last shot of the Fourth of July Weekend, N&W J Class 611 walks across a former N&W bridge in Wabun, Virginia on her way back home to Roanoke.

Norfolk & Western 611 blasts by the old freight depot in Christiansburg, VA.

In this beautiful morning Virginia perspective, N&W J Class 611 sweeps through an s curve just west of Webster on the former N&W Blue Ridge District.

In a classic N&W scene, N&W J Class 611 puts on a spectacular show as she climbs Christiansburg Grade on July 4th.

Marching upgrade near the hamlet of Shawsville, Viriginia, N&W J Class 611 puts on a show on home rails as the storm clouds start to migrate in.

Slipping all the way up the Blue Ridge Grade, N&W J Class splits the CPL's at Villamont as it puts on a show returning west to Roanoke along the former N&W.

Leaving Radford 20 minutes late, Bristol-bound 958 crosses the New River trestle on an unseasonably cool summer afternoon. Trespassers on the east side of the bridge held up in downtown the train ... (more)

The debut return of the Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611 is seen crossing the Dan River at Danville, Virginia on May 30, running as NS train 957.

Southern Mikado 4501 puts on great show as it ducks under the Mary Street Bridge in Bristol, Virginia.

Norfolk & Western's only remaining, of 14 built; J-Class 4-8-4 #611 leads NS 958 towards Petersburg, VA passing through the small community of Burkeville, VA just before a crew change in Crewe, VA... (more)

It is bright as early as Norfolk and Western "J" 611 leads a morning excursion out of Lynchburg, VA across the Possum Creek trestle.