70 years young! The North Carolina Transportation Museum held a night photo session to celebrate the birth year of two iconic locomotives. 1950 saw the construction of both N&W 611 and Southern FP... (more)

All is quiet at Sandy Hook Yard. The switching is done for the day and 2644 sits idol. Keeping watch over the former C&O yard is the steam era coaling tower with much of it's hardware still intact... (more)

611, assisted by a lone diesel, starts the 16 mile westbound twisting grade toward Bluefield, WV. The last years of the NS Steam Program saw the consists grow to 25 plus cars. To help get the tra... (more)

NS 2510 leads a ballast train eastbound out of Welch Tunnel.

NS 8790 trails a 3 unit pusher set assisting an eastbound coal train up the Elkhorn Grade at Maybeury West Virginia. The bridge at Maybeury crosses over highway route 52.

Former Southern 6509, rolls southbound with a TOFC train just out of Pomona Yard in Greensboro.

The sun is finally breaking through the morning fog as NS 8563 leads an empty hopper train westbound out of Bluefield yard.

Running long hood forward, in N&W and Southern tradition, NS 8560 highballs a TOFC train southbound through High Point.

Former N&W C30-7 8071, leads a mix of power on a northbound freight through High Point. The first car in the consist is a former Southern Railway Radio Car used to control mid-train helpers from ... (more)

In 1954 Southern Railway donated J-Class 2-8-0 #542 to Tanglewood Park near Clemmons NC. There it sat deteriorating for 37 years. In 1991 a deal was struck between the North Carolina Transportatio... (more)

The late winter scenery can look pretty bleak in the southern West Virginia coal fields. The mountain of coal slag in the background will look the same even in spring and summer months. But there ... (more)

Deep in the heart of Norfolk & Western coal country, UP 3791 carries a message from UP corporate.

Southern Railway bay window caboose X498 brings up the rear of an eastbound local freight as it crosses the Catawba River Bridge on it's way to Salisbury, NC.

NS 9588 leads a southbound freight through Reidsville, NC.

A road weary 868 rests at Winston-Salem North Yard. Built in the late 1950's, 868 was one of the group of 1st generation diesels that helped retire N&W steam.