Y6 2154 sits at Shaffers Crossing facing west.

Famous class J 611 whistles for the Davis Rd. crossing at Bonsack while rolling downgrade with the Southern Ry. TENNESSEAN. The Blue Ridge Parkway now crosses over the railroad at this spot.

The first of the class J 4-8-4s pulls upgrade with the overnight POCAHONTAS from Cincinnati and Colombus for Norfolk.

J 603 rolls downgrade with a complete streamlined set of equipment on the POWHATAN ARROW bound for Cincinnati. This is the 4-8-4 featured in O. Winston Link's long recording of train 42 at Rural R... (more)

The last of the Y6a locomotives class runs light downgarde at Bonsack.

Class A 1238 rolls downgrade at a good clip with a westbound freight bound for Roanoke. This is one of my favorite shots as the fireman has just begun to stoke the fire adding contrast to the stea... (more)

The smoke from Y6a 2167 lingers as grimy class A 1219 steams through the station with a westbound freight near the end of the locomotive's run.

N&W Y6a 2167 is pushing an eastbound freight through Roanoke on a beautiful November morning with the railway's office buildings in the background.

I ran down the platform to catch this N&W K2a just cutting off Shenendoah Division train 1 from Hagerstown, Md.. This was the start of an exciting day of rail photography.

This H9s 2-8-0 was encountered switching a local freight at Carlisle, Pa. as my father drove us down to Roanoke, Va..

By golly I think this is the first picture of an operating BEDT engine in the data base. There are pictures of the 13 stuffed and mounted at Strasburg, and this engine stuffed and mounted at the ... (more)

K4s 830 leaves South Amboy with North Jersey Coast train 723 for Bay Head Jct..

The view from the rear of K4s 830 shows how tall those 80 inch driving wheels are.

K4s 830 waits for a train from New York in the afternoon. The caboose of a Jersey Central sand train running on the joint railroad is seen at the left.

There were seven K4s locomotives in steam that day at South Amboy.