My friend Paul recently shared a picture of Norfolk Southern train 290 from a couple of years ago led by two Union Pacific units. He remarked that 290 often had good power from a railfan perspective. Unfortunately, Norfolk Southern discontinued…
Here’s a shot from May 31, 2019 of Norfolk Southern train 211 at Fiery Run Road crossing in Fauquier County, Virginia. Power was NS ES-44DC #7622, SD70ACe #1073 (the Penn Central Railroad heritage unit), and SD70ACe #1066 (the New York…
To celebrate my dad’s 90th birthday, we rented the caboose at the Walkersville Southern Railroad during one of their steam excursions. Visiting locomotive Jeddo Coal 0-4-0T #85 provided the power. A great time was had by all and I’d highly…
Yesterday thanks to heads-ups from Facebook friends, I got to see specially painted Norfolk Southern GP38-2 #5642 leading train 974 west through Linden, Virginia en route to Shire Oaks, Pennsylvania. This equipment is an operation awareness and response (OAR) set…
I was driving up to the crossing when I heard a train coming. I didn’t have time to get out of the car so was just going to grab pics of the numbers so I could post the locomotive numbers…
Norfolk Southern B-line local train K91 passed west by Linden, Virginia last Saturday with SD40-2 #3346 and three cars. In the video below, you can hear the Leslie RS3L horn on the former Conrail unit. Photo Video
Here is a photo and video of Norfolk Southern train 36Q led by SD70ACU #7248. The Norfolk Southern SD70ACUs are rebuilt from former SD90MACs. NS #7248 is formerly a Union Pacific SD90MAC. Photo Video
NS train 203 was led by SD70ACe #1068, the Erie Railroad heritage unit, this evening east on the B-line through Linden, Virginia. I didn’t get there in time to set up my video camera and just grabbed a going away…
Over Spring Break, we visited relatives in East Tennessee and also visited Dollywood. The hourly steam train ride there was very popular…. every trip looked full or nearly so. Dollywood 2-8-2 #70, also known as Cinderella, led the train and…
