October 1, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 9571 heads up the American Association of Private Railway Car Owners passenger train special…

October 1, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 9571 heads up the American Association of Private Railway Car Owners passenger train special with AMTRAK engines 156 and 154, as it heads west through Hatfield Junction just east of Oakland City, Indiana. The train left Louisville on the former Southern Railway’s St. Louis line and crossed the Ohio River, traveling through scenic southern Indiana and Illinois arriving at their convention destination in St. Louis, Missouri. – Tech Info: 1/400sec | f/5 | ISO 320 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 32mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.

NS 8104 Lehigh Valley at Squaw Creek Mine, Boonville, Indiana

December 26, 2017 – “Twas the night before Christmas” when empty Norfolk Southern coal train D435-24, with Lehigh Valley Heritage Unit 8104 pulled to a stop outside the Squaw Creek Mine at Booneville, Indiana, where it still sits the day after Christmas, waiting for a crew to take it on into the mine for loading. With the holidays over crews across the nation will soon once again begin to move their trains.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

January 5, 2017 – Norfolk Southern’s 167 crew sits on 8046 as they wait for a crew bus to pick them up from the middle of the yard at Princeton, Indiana as CN unit train 319 sits next to them, also with a crew waiting for pickup, after arriving with their eastbound manifest train.

Norfolk Southern 375 Westbound drops helpers at Georgetown, IN

November 24, 2017 – Westbound Norfolk Southern 375 stops briefly on the main at Georgetown, IN so the units that helped push it up the grade from Louisville, Ky to be dropped off from the rear of its train, giving me just long enough to get off one exposure before it started moving again!

Norfolk Southern 9943 at Tehachapi Mountains, Bealville, CA

June 24, 2006 – It’s a hot, dry day as Norfolk Southern 9943, in gray primer paint, heads up a Union Pacific freight train as it makes it’s way through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville, California as it heads toward the famous Tehachapi Loop.NS 9943 at Tehachapi Mountains, Bealville, CA

With long hood forward, Norfolk Southern Railroad 8772…

October 26, 2017 – With long hood forward, Norfolk Southern Railroad 8772 heads up a rail train as it sits on the Norfolk Southern/Indiana Southern diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. The engineer was waiting for the crew on the back of the train to cut a piece of rail, before moving ahead to the east to drop more rail.

Norfolk Southern northbound loaded Coal at Big Clifty, Ky

October 31, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7679 leads a loaded coal train across the trestle at Big Clifty, Ky as it heads north toward Louisville, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway as the last light of Halloween begins to fade from the sky.NS NB loaded Coal at Big Clifty, Ky

NS 8772 waits at Diamond, Oakland City, IN

October 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Railroad’s 8772, with long nose forward, heads up a waiting rail train, as Maintenance of Way crews tear out a crossing at the NS/IS diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. Norfolk Southern MOW crews worked several days to replace the diamond and several crossings surrounding around it.

NS 8154 leading a empty coal train toward Booneville, IN

October 26, 2017 – A empty Norfolk Southern Coal train makes its way through the fall countryside, outside Booneville, Indiana, after dropping a load of coal at the Alcoa plant, just outside of Yankeetown, IN.NS 8154 Headed for Booneville, IN

NS Interstate and Lehigh Valley Heritage units at Yankee Town, IN

October 26, 2017 – After hearing from a fellow railfan, William Crupper (thanks!!), that Norfolk Southern’s Interstate (8105) and Lehigh Valley (8104) Heritage units were on coal trains delivering coal to Alcoa in Newburgh Indiana, I made my way that way. By the time I arrived they had finished their work and while both coal trains were gone the heritage units were left tied down at the small yard at Alcoa, which I made for a great shot!

BNSF 9221 leads a loaded coal train…

September 8, 2017 – BNSF 9221 leads a loaded coal train down grade alongside Norfolk Southern DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, TN as it heads west on the Chattanooga Terminal.

Southbound Norfolk Southern on the Tenbridge, Chattanooga, TN

September 7, 2017- My first chilly night in Chattanooga, TN I found myself with several fellow railfans on the banks of the Tennessee River, photographing this mixed freight southbound as it headed across the Tenbridge, on the CNO&TP 3rd District of NS’s Central Division. It runs from Chattanooga, TN to Harriman, TN.SB NS on the Tenbridge, Chattanooga, TN

Squaw Creek 21 and Norfolk Southern 7320 at Yankeetown, Indiana

August 4, 2017 – Squaw Creek 21 and Norfolk Southern 7320 sit idling in the stillness of the night at Alcoa/Yankeetown Docks yard. The NS loaded train waits for a crew to move its load of coal into the Alcoa Warrick Operations at Yankee Town Dock, just outside of Newburgh, Indiana. at 

Night view of NS 7820 at Yankeetown Dock, Newburgh, IN

August 4, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7320 and Squaw Creek 21 sit idling in the stillness of the night at Squaw Creek the NS loaded train waits for a crew to move the loaded coal into the Alcoa Warrick Operations at Yankee Town Dock, just outside of Newburgh, Indiana.