Patience is a virtue. Me and a couple buddies left at 6 am to go to Duffield VA to chase U41 with 8099, the southern heritage unit leading. We arrived between 9-10 am expecting it to already be on... (more)

After getting held up in Mayflower, and putting this train 8 hours behind schedule, NS local U41 finally runs through the natural tunnel on its return trip to Andover shortly after 11pm.

The duo of the NS 8099 Southern and the NS 1068 Erie lead the NS 756 over the Mayo River enroute to Belews Creek Steam Station.

NS 192 led by the Southern Heritage Engine going through Adams - the last remaining control point with Southern Signals on the former Southern Railway Washington to Atlanta main

Southern NS 8099, the Southern Railway heritage unit, leads 13V, a westbound manifest into Altoona to work the yard.

Golden hour on the James… Having just made the swap at Montview with the inbound crew from Roanoke, 288 hustles north over the James River as golden hour encroaches on the river valley as the... (more)

Eastbound intermodal 22X crosses Vermilion River with the Southern Railway Heritage Unit leading.

The Wearing of the Green: NS 8099 leads NS 22X on Norfolk Southern Lehigh Line Track #2 at Manville. The lead unit was returned to service in May 2023 after being damaged in a derailment in... (more)

Southern serves on home rails running north over the James River

Twelve years ago today, Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended ... (more)

Villamont Greens: NS 8099, the Southern Heritage Unit, leads intermodal train NS 279 westbound through Villamont, Virginia, along the NS Blue Ridge District.

Southern 8099 Heritage Engine leading NS 204 under one of the last surviving Southern Signal Bridges in Lowell

NS 8099, the "Southern" heritage unit, shoots through The Plains, Virginia on the return trip from the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Actor Robert Duvall actually lives right around ... (more)

NS 8099 and 1069 doubled up on 955, returning back to Altoona, PA from The Masters for storage. Passing on former SOU trackage next to the Manassas Airport

Sucker hole… With the clouds overtaking most of the sky, the sun sneaks through a sucker hole as Larry Bunts and Lucas Adams hustle 955 south out of Priddy with the Augusta Special, bound for... (more)