Rise and shine 611. Just moments after sunrise, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 makes a spirited charge across the Amish Farmland along Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, hauling a... (more)

The N&W Class A No. 1218 coming around the curve just in time to capture the last rays of the sun on Kodachrome 200 slide film. The engineer is blowing the mighty hooter whistle, acknowledging th... (more)

The N&W Class A No. 1218 is heading south to Lynchburg, at a grade crossing just off the old Zachary Taylor Highway in rural Culpeper County, VA

Victim of some long forgotten mishap, found in an old file and fodder for the morbid such as myself, I present a wreck.

Boy were we spoiled! From 1987 to 1992 both of these fantastic steam engines were running mainline excursions and ferry moves on the Norfolk Southern System. This double headed run is somewhere so... (more)

A Norfolk & Western westbound merchandise freight passes an old Wabash Railroad searchlight signal located in Lagro, IN on a beautiful September day. Ektachrome, photographer unknown, John E. Tro... (more)

Ready to Go! N&W 1218 will shortly be towed out of the Roanoke Transportation Museum and then on to Birmingham Alabama to be overhauled. Sections of panel track have been laid into the museum fro... (more)

First generation diesels in the “Dead Line” in the former Virginian Railway yard in south Roanoke. SW1200RS 1202 is ex Illinois Terminal 776 built in November 1955. GP9 2491 is ex Nickel Plate... (more)

First generation diesels populate the "Dead Line" in the old Virginian Railway yard in south Roanoke. GP9 888 was built sometime in 1959. GP9 513 was built in November 1958 and was one of the Tusc... (more)

The next generation of railfan records the run around move of 611 operating on the Strasburg Railroad's passenger trains.

KANSAS CITY KS May 2 1982 -- Norfolk and Western SD39 1502 leads a UP mixed freight with the Kansas City skyline as a backdrop.

475 simmers by the engine shed after a long day of Lerro photo charter runbys.

A young railfan waves from the gondola as 1218 blasts past the N&W Color Position Light Signal at Forest Virginia.

Mastodon. In 1958, the Norfolk & Western Railway donated 433 (4-8-0, Alco) to the Town of Abingdon, Virginia as a monument to the end of steam on the Abingdon or Virginia Creeper Branch. B... (more)

Former Nickel Plate Road GP9 523, renumbered by new owner Norfolk & Western at Madison, Illinois on November 19, 1966. Photo by John Booker, from my collection.