Together for the first time, all four F-units lead a deadhead OCS move around Eastbrook curve to Norfolk, VA.
All four of the F-Units together for the first time, lead a deadhead OCS move to Norfolk, VA.
NS 4271 with its front knuckle left open after being turned and put into the lead after NS 4270 suffered traction motor problems.
Norfolk Southern OCS #951 tours the system with corporate executives aboard. Here the freshly painted F's greet the sunrise rounding the wye onto the ex-Southern B-line enroute to Hagerstown, MD.
OCS special crosses the tranquil Potomac River on its morning northward journey from Manassas to Harrisburg.
The engineer throtles up and a cloud of smoke rises as the OCS begins its climb out of the Potomac River Valley at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Behind the OCS, to the right, is the Rumsey Monumen... (more)
The NS OCS crosses the James River just North of Lynchburg.
After traction motor problems plagued the 4270, the units were turned and 4271 leads NS 951 into Bristol and on East.
NS 4271 powers 951 East through Atkins, VA at track speed
Three F Units have no problem moving the three-car Special toward Roanoke.
A very interesting lineup of locomotives at the Juniata Shops with the F units nose to nose, a toasted dash-9 and part of an engine on a flat car.
NS 4271 takes a spin on the turntable as sister unit 4270 awaits its turn to be moved.
Basking in some sweet afternoon light in Juniata, NS 4271 get a few more minutes of rest before making her first trip as part of the NS OCS.
NS 4271 prepares for her maiden trip over the Middle Division by backing into the shed to pull out the train to go to Croxton. The second B unit was left off for this trip.
