With the steam era “Lubritorium” service building in the background, N&W 611 simmers in the rain in Bluefield yard. Four months later many steam fans would shed a tear as Norfolk Southern anno... (more)

N&W 1218 is northbound at Grover NC.

A friendly wave from the engineer as his train exits the west portal of Elkhorn Tunnel with empty hopper cars headed back to the coal mines.

Don't know the full story behind this one but I thought Justin's Caboose was a unique display at Ringley Park in Downtown Coeburn.

Norfolk & Western Railway GP9 620 is shoving past me in this 2009 with a caboose hop around the North Carolina Transportation Museum compound. This vintage GP9 was repainted into N&W black a ew ye... (more)

Riding behind NW 1218 on its first trip up and over Blue Ridge. The train is approaching the summit on the fill at Webster. Today, the code lines are gone, the trees have grown up, and the 1218 ... (more)

Diesel scrap and a little red boat...N&W GP9 743 and 797 are well on their way to oblivion in this shot of Cycle Systems Scrap Yard.

Built new by N&W in 1911, now awaiting an unlikely restoration.

The Big J heads west. With just seconds of daylight left, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 charges west through the Fairview section of Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, headed for... (more)

Frosty, pre-dawn departure. The Norfolk & Western Railway's colorful J-Class Northern #611 waits with her passenger train in the yard at East Strasburg, PA, as her crew performs brake tests... (more)

Barreling through Ohio farmland. Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 looks right at home barreling across open farmland, hauling a 5-car express passenger train on a sunny November afte... (more)

Crossing the Pumpkinville Pike. Here's a mid-morning view of Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 as she hauls a matched string of wooden coaches over the famous bridge spanning the &quo... (more)

Fifties classics cross paths. In what could be a scene out of the mid-1950s on one of the Norfolk & Western's Ohio routes, the J-Class Northern #611 charges through a rural crossing as the ... (more)

Executing a "hard start". On most railroad photo shoots, run-bys are initiated out of sight of the photo line from around a curve or behind a stand of trees. This serves two purp... (more)

The "Spirit of Roanoke" rides again. Norfolk & Western J-Class #611, "The Spirit of Roanoke" hauls a short passenger special westbound on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail R... (more)