A roster shot of the NS heritage unit on the point of a Detroit bound coal train.

Heritage engine of the original Norfolk Southern.

NS Heritage unit waits for a new crew in Toledo to continue up to Detroit.

NS Heritage far from "home rails" pulls a coal train across the southeastern Michigan farm fields. The foreground track is the CN Shoreline Sub.

Sometimes things just come together! A NS 353 with typical for that train CN power rolls past the NS heritage unit holding the main with their coal train while a PRB coal train sits in the wagon ... (more)

NS 8114 passes over Bootleg Trestle, just west of Natural Tunnel State Park.

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 and Interstate 8105 shuffles a cut of coal from Norton to the storage track at Tacoma. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For mor... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 and Interstate 8105 shuffles a cut of coal from Norton to the storage track at Tacoma. The Interstate Railroad's mainline and wye can be seen in the backgrou... (more)

With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS Norton Shifter U4N works eastbound at Tacoma with a short train of coal loads to be set out at the Tacoma Storage track t... (more)

With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS U4N gets underway out of the yard at Norton with coal loads bound for the storage track at Tacoma

The original NS heritage unit leads train 387 out of Natural Tunnel on its maiden run in revenue service.

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 meets the Interstate heritage unit in front of the NS yard office in Norton, home territory for the Interstate Railroad. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norf... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 leads its first revenue train towards Andover, seen here squeezing thru the small railroad bore within the naturally-made Natural Tunnel. The creek created m... (more)

The original NS heritage unit blasts under the signal bridge at CP Boone after a stop to pick up cars at the yard in Yuma.

The new Norfolk Southern paint scheme? Not quite. The "original" Norfolk Southern heritage unit leads its first revenue train North out of Knoxville.