N&W Class J #611 comes to a stop under the water plug inside the yards of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC on May 1st, 2021. Built in 1950, #611 is the only remaining Class ... (more)

N&W Class J #611 pulls into Bristol, VA with the Tennessean on the starry night of May 1st, 2021. Meanwhile on the adjacent track the engineer of Southern FP7A #6133 climbs aboard ready to haul hi... (more)

Norfolk & Western Class J #611 pauses at CP "Duncan" with the Tennessean on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This was taken as part of a night photo charter at the North Carolina Transporta... (more)

N&W Class J #611 stands guard at the N&W CPLs of CP "Duncan" on the evening of May 1st, 2021. The N&W CPLs were donated to the NCTM by Mr. Tommy Duncan, a retired N&W/NS employee of 44 y... (more)

N&W #611 hustles past the N&W CPLs with the Tennessean on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This sunset shot was taken as the start of a night photo shoot hosted by the North Carolina Transportation M... (more)

It's a late night inside Shaffers Crossing of the Norfolk & Western Railway as two female hostlers work to replenish Class J #611's 20,000 gallon tender after a long day of running through souther... (more)

NS #4137 and #4408, hauling a loaded eastbound coal train, have just crested Elkhorn Grade and are crossing Cooper's Trestle in Coopers, WV on the afternoon of April 26, 2021. This coal will be bo... (more)

Norfolk Southern #1813, presumably on the head end of NS 393, heads west on April 26, 2021 along the former Norfolk & Western Pocahontas Division in the sleepy town of Iaeger, WV. Once a bustling ... (more)

Norfolk Southern #3624 slips through the fog with its manifest freight train outside of Narrows, VA on NS' Christiansburg District during the early morning hours of April 26, 2021.

Norfolk Southern ET44AC #3624, at the head-end of a long manifest freight, slips through the sleepy New River community of Eggleston, Virginia on the morning of April 26, 2021.

Amidst spring colors, Norfolk Southern #4137, hauling the black diamonds of the Pocahontas coal region, coasts downgrade near Ada, WV on the warm evening of April 26, 2021.

Norfolk Southern #3624 is charging hard outside of Ingleside, WV at the head end of a long manifest freight train bound for Bluefield on the misty morning of April 26, 2021.

Norfolk Southern #3624 leads a manifest freight through the fading fog and silence of Oakvale, West Virginia on the morning of April 26, 2021.

Who's to say backlighting can't be useful? In the early evening of April 26, 2021, NS #4137, among a mixture of newly hatched flies, brake dust, and diesel exhaust, coasts downgrade near Ingleside... (more)

Near Falls Mills, VA Norfolk Southern #4087 splits the signals heading east to Bluefield, WV with a loaded coal train on the evening of April 16, 2021.