Tattered BCOL C40-8M 4608 leads NS 290 into Atlanta, Georgia on September 3, 2014 as I'm nearly completely burned by the pending clouds during my one available attempt to photograph this train wit... (more)

NS C40-9 #8842 leads #290 into Atlanta alongside train #220 who is entering Inman Yard.

A pair of Union Pacific-owned SD70M locomotives pull northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train number 290 through Greensboro, NC on December 16, 2017.

Norfolk Southern intermodal train 290 crosses over from track 2 to track 1 at Elm on its way north through Greensboro, NC on December 14, 2017.

NS 290 rumbles under the old Cobb Street wooden bridge in Lula with endangered D9-40C No. 8887 leading the way. 8887, formerly the second-to-last D9-40C ordered by NS, currently serves as the hig... (more)

Passing the cows grazing at the Al-Mara farm, home to "Cows 'n Corn"

NS 290 swings through the curves at Cramerton, NC as a blooming crape myrtle tree looks on.

Northbound train 290 crosses the diamond at Charlottesville.

NS 290 with SD70 2555 leading passes through Manville on an unusually warm winter morning.

Norfolk Southern's 'Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad' heritage SD70ACe leads a short #290 across the Chattahoochee River into Atlanta,GA on its trip from McCalla,AL to Croxton,NJ.

NS #290 crosses the Chattahoochee River behind a pair of BNSF GE's.

Escaping Local Service

...if just for a few days, is NS 1639, one of a handful of former low nose N&W SD40-2's that has been in local service in the North Carolina area for the pas... (more)