Smoke billows out as this Norfolk Southern train heads south across the Dan River.

Deadhead move heading to Spencer,NC from Lynchburg,VA at this historical station, home of the Old 97 Wreck more than 100 years ago.

You can barely tell that for many decades Dan River Mills had a wooden trestle that could hold 3 coal cars at a time right here. The coal dump is gone and most of the mill is as well now.

SOU Ry. No. 5, The Piedmont, observing a station stop in Danville, Va.

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.