August 23, 2016 – Norfolk Southern, NS 1067 (EMD SD70ACe), the Reading Lines Heritage Unit, leads a loaded southbound Vectren coal train across NS line at the diamond on the Indiana Southern Railroad at Oakland City, Indiana.
August 22, 2016 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 1067, “Reading Lines” makes it’s way up a slight grade on the Indiana Railroad as it approaches the connection at Sullivan, Indiana to CSX’s CE&D Subdivision where it continued south to Oaktown, IN to pickup a load of coal.
August 20, 2016 – Norfolk Southern Wabash Heritage Unit, 1070, is reflected in standing water, as it makes its way east into the yard at Princeton, Indiana on NS 223 with a loaded intermodal at sunset.
August 18, 2016 Norfolk Southern 8160 approaches NS’s L.S. Junction at Louisville, Ky as it heads north with its loaded coal train.
July 18, 2016 Norfolk Southern empty coal train, with 8015 leading, sits on the main at Paducah and Louisville Railways West Yard at Madisonville, Ky. They were waiting for a MOW worker to finish working on the Pee Vee Spur switch so they could head to Warrior coal to pickup their load. – Tech Info: 1/2500 | f/5.3 | ISO 560 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 220mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 6, 2016 Norfolk Southern Tier4 engine 3616 heads up a loaded coal train as it heads north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway cutting its way through steam rising from the roadbed after a summer rain outside Bremen, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/320 | f/6.3 | ISO 500 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
June 1, 2016 Norfolk Southern 1161 sits on the DPU end of a empty coal train at Squaw Creek as a loaded trains waits to move into the Alcoa Warrick Operations at Yankee Town Dock, just outside of Newburgh, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/320 | f/2.8 | ISO 900 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 40mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
June 8, 2016 Paducah and Louisville Railways LSX1 prepares to depart from West Yard in Madisonville, Ky with its Norfolk Southern Train, in the early morning light, with a brand new Tier 4 ET44AC 3616 leading its coal train heading for Warrior Coal on it’s first revenue run. – Tech Info: 1/2500 | f/5.3 | ISO 2500 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 230mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
April 12, 2016 – Norfolk Southern WB comes out of the yard at Princeton, IN heading west toward Mt. Carmel, IL on the NS Southern West district. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/6 | ISO 560 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 370mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
February 7, 2016 – Norfolk Southern L11 pulls out of NS Blair yard at Fostoria, Ohio on the NS Transfer track at F Tower with 6344 leading. – Tech Info: 1/250 | f/5.3 | ISO 2000 | Lens:Nikon 70-300 @ 230mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
February 25, 2016 CSX Q647-24, with NS 7683 leading and BNSF 608 trailing, pulls out of the siding at the south end of Romney in Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision under stormy skies. Tech Info: 1/1000 | f/2.8 | ISO 560 | Lens: Nikon 18mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
February 7, 2016 – A Norfolk Southern freight passes through Blair yard at Fostoria, Ohio heading west on the Sandusky Subdivision with engine 9357 in the lead. – Tech Info: 1/1000 | f/6.3 | ISO 125 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 550mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
February 4, 2016 – Norfolk Southern rail train waits in the siding for a eastbound freight before heading on west at Milltown, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/2500 | f/5.3 | ISO 900 | Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 200mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 22, 2016 – CSX Q647 approaches the north end of Romney siding at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision through the snow. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/2.8 | ISO 250 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 8, 2016 – Norfolk Southern engine 8975 heads up a loaded coke train as it heads south on the Paducah and Louisville Railway through Charleston, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/400 | f/2.8 | ISO 1400 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 62mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 returns to the station at the museum after turning on the wye at Citco Junction on Norfolk Southern’s mainline, during it’s return trip from Cleveland on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train during 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 250, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The conductor on Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern diesel unit 2594, A GP30 built in 1963, unlocks the switch at Chattanooga, Tennessee on it’s dinner train run at the turn around point, where they run the engine around the train, as the glow of sunset illuminates the scene. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 360, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 240mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads west on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Pine Hill Road, McDonald, Tennessee during it’s return trip to Chattanooga with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/7, ISO 450, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501, a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1911, sits in the station at Chattanooga, Tennessee as a Norfolk Southern Geometry Train heads west in the NS mainline, during the TVRM’s 2015 Railfest. Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 280, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Norfolk Southern Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian. rolls past NS 6920, the Honoring Our Veterans unit, as it rolls east on a manifest train at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Veterans unit just returned with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest. It was a rare stand-in for Southern 4501 that had fire box issues with it’s last run. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 320, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.