N&W Y6a 2157 pushes a coal drag headed by five EMD GP9 units. This was my final shot of Norfolk and Western steam in regular service.

N&W Y6b 2179 and Y6a 2157 roll down the Blue Ridge grade in reverse during a light engine move.

N&W Y6a 2160 and class A 1219 are nose-to-nose rolling downgrade at Blue Ridge with an empty hopper train. I had also seen this unusual helper arrangement that August on one occasion. There were a... (more)

N&W Y6a 2157 hustles upgrade at Blue Ridge on a light engine move.

N&W Y6a 1258 and class A 1221 have crested the Blue Ridge grade with eastbound coal and are rolling downgrade at Villamont in the morning.

A hostler fills the tank of a Y6 at Shaffers Crossing engine terminal.

N&W Y6b 2179 is running light eastbound early in the morning at Blue Ridge.

N&W Y6 2142 leaves Blue Ridge with the eastbound local freight after switching the stone crusher there.

The sunlight was dramatic and the hills very lush as Y6a 2158 pushes the afternoon freight headed by two other Y6 locomotives.

This train was at the end of my August 1958 visit to Roanoke. It had rained quite hard that afternoon but then the sun broke through dramatically. Two Y6s pull on an eastbound freight and the lead... (more)

Y6a 2167 pushes hard on the wood-sheathed caboose of a coal drag pulled by a single Y6, number 2152.

A bit of hazy sunlight illuminates Y6a 2157 pushing a steel caboose on the freight led by class A 1217.

Y6 2150 on the local freight from Roanoke steams under the small road bridge near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade.

An eastbound coal drag behind Y6 2129 and class A 1216 pull upgrade near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade. I met several other railfans on this trip and one of them must have been Jerry Carson ... (more)

Y6b 2179 is one of the newer engines and is on pusher duty this morning. The engine pushes a coal drag pulled by Y6 2129 and class A 1216. The level of water in the tender is evident in the August... (more)