Amtrak's Coast Starlight rolls northward on Mt. Shasta's flanks during Memorial Day weekend 1995. Within days, the stylish GEs on the Starlights would be replaced by Genesis units.
NS B32-8 sits dead and stripped of some of its parts at Norfolk Southern's Roanoke Shops. NS has since retired all of its B32-8 locomotives.
Norfolk Southern GE B32-8 No. 524, formerly numbered NS 3524, sits in Progress Rail' Roanoke facility where it, along with a fleet of retired boxcars, are being scrapped. NS retired much of its B3... (more)
Nothing says comradery on the railroad likes a pair of engineers giving one another a wave as they race past each other somewhere secluded. Such is the case this warm, summer afternoon at Waldorf ... (more)
Amtrak's Southwest Chief crosses the former Rock Island mainline as it slows to a stop at Joliet, IL on its last lap into Chicago. At this time, the lead unit no. 508 was fairly new, and forecast ... (more)
The stored units and various types of freight cars in the yards at Roanoke provide leading lines into the Roanoke skyline, what little of one there is.
NS's Dump Train, which operated between Wentz, located on ex-Interstate Railroad rails, and Holton, located on a spur off the ex-Southern's St. Charles Branch, shoves empties towards the loadout a... (more)
Having outlived their usefulness, NS B32's 523 and 524 are being scrapped at the Progress Rail Scrapyard in Roanoke, VA. All of the B32's are now in storage and many await the same fate as these t... (more)
A pair of NS B32-8s, both now retired and being cut up for scrap, lead a local across Highway 70, near Barber Junction
In the eastern part of North Carolina, along the former Southern Railway branch lines, LHF was a way of life with Southern. Here, NS local E-16 continues the tradition of running LHF as it crosse... (more)
The B32-8, one of the stepchildren of GE's dash 8 series. The other most notable were the Conrail C32-8s. NS 537 stands quietly in Forest Park, Georgia awaiting future local assignments in the we... (more)
NS B32-8 #3546 and the Westmoreland Coal "Dump Train" at Appalachia, VA in Feb. 1992.
The port job returns to Simpson yard shoving a whopping 7 racks back into the yard.
Dash-8, meet F40. I think many would prefer to see this Amtrak locomotive meet more often.