NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead the 2025 NS Masters OCS train southbound through Front Royal, Virginia.
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NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead the 2025 NS Masters OCS train southbound through Front Royal, Virginia.
U87 pulls its empty scrubber stone train into Princeton to load out at the Stone plant in town.
NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead southbound Masters OCS southbound through Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead the masters OCS southbound through Greencastle, Pennsylvania along the NS Lurgan Branch.
NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead the southbound OCS through Rectortown, Virginia, along the NS B Line.
The Norfolk Southern Masters OCS rolls southbound with the NS 8099 and NS 1069 along the B Line in Marshall, Virginia.
As the day turns to early evening in, Virginia, the 2025 version of the Norfolk Southern Masters OCS rolls southbound with the NS 8099 and NS 1069 in Culpeper, Virginia.
As the day brings in the night in Charlottesville, Virginia, the 2025 version of the Norfolk Southern Masters OCS rolls southbound through Charlottesville, Virginia with the NS 8099 and NS 1069 in tow.
East River Mountain stands tall covered in snow above the Celanese Plant that Coltrane 820 can be seen strolling through over the old Virginian mainline.
Hyco Hopper Train 763 is seen coasting out of Hardy Tunnel, the first of five tunnels on the Altavista District east out of Roanoke. Freshly rebuilt 4882 leads the way.
Work Train 90Q is seen splitting the Whitethorne CPLs on the shove to Norcross after spotting MOW gons in the House Track at Yellow Sulphur, with Conductor Brett Hill giving a wave. Cab No. 555013 further compliments the relics adorned by Whitethorne: N&W Signals on both ends of the siding, the now vacant Virginian Pusher House & Catenary, and old SOU Trailers for MOW.
814 coasts along the New into Pembroke by one section of the many slide fences on the Whitethorne.
During one of many outings in this excellent '24-'25 Winter, an 814 is seen crossing the VGN/N&W Over-Under at Wabun on the last stretch before Roanoke.
NS 1069, the Virginian Heritage Unit, leads manifest train NS 18W southbound along the NS Winston-Salem District, through Starkey, Virginia.
NS 1069, the Virginian Heritage Unit, leads manifest train NS 18W southbound out of Roanoke and down the Pumpkin Vine toward Carolina.
NS 1069, the Virginian Heritage Unit, leads manifest train NS 18W eastbound out of the yard in Roanoke, Virginia, as the train begins its journey south.
The morning finds a decently busy Roanoke Terminal for this day and age. NS 4685 and NS 1067, the Reading Heritage Unit, lead intermodal train NS 278 eastbound. As manifest train NS 18W, led by the NS 1069, the Virginian Heritage Unit, awaits its signal to head east. On the left side of the frame is part of the Roanoke dead line of locomotives.
Bluefield Roadswitcher J40 crosses a long viaduct near Ingleside on the far south end of the Princeton-Deepwater District with a handful of WV Recycle Scrap Gons for Kellysville over a blanket of Ice and snow.
118 charges towards Roanoke as it flies out of Slate Hill Tunnel under blankets of fresh powder.
Two big AC's pull Elmore's 810 over the 0.6% ruling eastbound grade on the Virginian east of Clark's Gap as they enter the summit at the West Portal of Merrimac Tunnel. In the far distance an abutment of the N&W's Blacksburg Branch, now a rail trail, stands over the Whitethorne.