Westbound OLS engine leading westbound OLS train in morning light.

NS 3352 and 5682 lead a two-car OLS special east out of Manville Yard a few minutes late thanks to a CSX freight also heading east.

A mother and her son watch intentively as NS 955 an Operation Lifesaver special passes through on its way west.

The special is in siding waiting for west-bound 722 unit empty coal hoppers to come by. Then it will get on up to Roanoke to be part of Train Day on Saturday.

The Derby Special arrives at Louisville! Seen here entering the east end of Youngtown Yard.

The Derby Special heads west through Lawrenceburg early in the morning.

In a deadhead move to the Kentucky Derby, Norfolk Southern's office car train makes its way west on the Fort Wayne Line just before the clouds rolled in for good. Special thanks to Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD F9(A)
Location: East of Lucas, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: NS 4271
Train ID: NS 955
Photo Date: April 24, 2009

After chasing from Mansfield - Crestline - Bucyrus all in clouds we finally got lucky with the last light of the day at 7:30 PM as the OCS run down to the Kentucky Derby headed towards Columbus.

After lenghty delays in the Pittsburgh area, The Kentucky Derby Special is finally in Ohio, seen here taking the signal at 134.6 on the Fort Wayne Line, it's nice to see some green starting to app... (more)

The NS Office Car Special heads towards the Kentucky Derby. Good luck to all of the fans out west!

Kentucky Derby OCS climbs the hill just west of CP WOOD approaching the PA/OH state line. Many thanks to Aaron O'Hern, Tom Granville, and the "BMan" for the many reports of 955's position!

STREET RUNNING AT ITS BEST! NS 955, the 2009 Master's Office Car Special, finally arrives to it's destination of Augusta, Georgia. He's now proceeding down the middle of 6th Street as he ma... (more)

A rare passenger consist traversed NS's southwest Virginia rails in the fall of 1996 when LENOWISCO, the southwest Virginia planning commission, organized a shipper special. After greetings at Nat... (more)

After holding for a monumental amount of time at the Daniels signal, these babies got the green and opened up in the straight-a-way south of Shenandoah Junction.

Bound for some place in the south, NS 4270 leading an OCS train pounds the diamond at Charles Town, West Virginia. This location is where NS's H-Line crosses over the Shenandoah Subdivision of CSX... (more)