NS 8105 The Interstate Heritage Unit Waits for a crew at Pontoon Road in Granite City Illinois. This train is posed next to the local Big!Lots which just so happens to have nearly the same colored... (more)

After the crew has just left the train, 431 sits at Pontoon Road, waiting a few hours before it heads north later in the afternoon.

Gypsum train 64A slowly eases it's way through the interlocking at Berea, where it will dip into the north controlled siding and await a new crew. The Interstate heritage unit is recently back in ... (more)

A Detroit Edison coal train bound for Trenton rolls up the Detroit line just north of Monroe, MI with the Interstate Heritage unit on the point.

In the last weak light of a winter day 64A rolls their final miles west before dropping their stone train in a siding. The white dust blowing off the train is from their stone load.

NS 64A with the Interstate Heritage unit on the point gets underway after stopping at CP 195 for a crew change. Hard to imagine that this is the first NS Heritage locomotive I have ever seen. Fi... (more)

Shoving hard on the rear of hill run U86, Norfolk Southern's Interstate heritage locomotive along with two other ES44AC's cross magnificent Garwood trestle situated along the former Virginian Rail... (more)

One of Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotives, the Interstate assists a train to Bluefield.

NS 8105 (Interstate), 8102 (Pennsylvania), and NS 8103 (Norfolk and Western) sitting in the yard at Bluefield with the Coaling Tower in the frame.

Arriving in Bluefield from the west, NS J5J pushers assist an NS 52Q loaded grain train into the yard. The pushers, featuring NS' Interstate Railroad heritage ES44AC will soon cut off, departing t... (more)

Near Flat Top Yards, NS J5J assists eastbound NS 52Q toward Bluefield, featuring NS' Interstate Railroad heritage ES44AC.

Assisting NS 52Q toward Bluefield, a duo of AC's featuring NS' Interstate Railroad ES44AC crosses over Tug Fork in downtown Welch, eastbound on the N&W mainline.

NS Train 762 departs Bluefield east bound for Roanoke with NS #8105 Interstate Heritage unit leading the way.

Late in the afternoon as the sun had draped across the right side of the locomotive NS Corp photographer Casey Thomason and I thought it would be an interesting photo to open up all of the body si... (more)