N&W RS-11 #374 on the NF&D at Danville, VA in June 1972
Fading has betrayed the former owner of the is unit but not the original, Nickel Plate. Nothing is left of this operation in Danville.
NF&D RS-11 #202 still showing its N&W colors at Danville, VA in August 1970. This engine was built in 1956 as Nickel Plate #560 and later became N&W 2560.
Classy looking ex-NW SD40-2 with its bay windows and clasp brakes.
Southern Alco 6074 in Danville, VA.
Northbound crosses the Dan River, which was recently flooded and has left quite a debris pile caught against the brdige. Photo taken from the old Southern mainline trestle.
Short train of empty bulkheads flies north. Later the engines would drop these cars off on the middle of the Dan River bridge by Dundee yard.
Southbound coal train heads through town to Stokesland where it will leave the mainline and cut over to Eden,NC
Southbound flies through the Bentley crossovers
Coal train heads south after a thunderstorm. There's a tiny hint of a rainbow in the background.
Two ex-Conrail's lead this southbound on the day before my 19th birthday. The building in the background to the left used to be an ice-cream place called Whistle Stop, now it's a used car place.
Danville local building his train on the old line to Blanch, NC to take to Goodyear
