N & W preferred running diesels long hood first. This made a big loco motive seem even bigger.
A Richard Beal photo: Coasting through Bluefield, WV yard, a set of two SD40's bracketing a SD45 heads toward the engine house
High short hoods always lent an aura of no-nonsense! Was the Norfolk & Western profitable because they didn't spend revenues frivolously on things like paint?
One of the simplest paint schemes...and one of the least attractive!
Turntable at left; note slanted sides on operating cab
Tuscan red NW SD40-2 #6175 is the sole unit on a mine run taking mtys west away from Williamson, WV. on an early spring day.
An eastbound grain train viewed from above eases through Williamson past two parked coal trains.
NW SD45 1753 and other units behind the Williamson passenger station. That Conrail unit is an SDP45! 669_.
NW 8000 trailed by NW 1500 (many zeroes!) behind the passenger station in Williamson
Broadside shot of NW 1955 in the Williamson Engine Terminal
NW GP35 in an older paint scheme but no front markings brings a grain train east by the tipple at Rawl, WV
When CSX was in the process of being created, NS insisted on being given trackage rights over the CSX between Balcony Falls, VA, and Lynchburg, VA. to create a "short cut" between their north-sout... (more)