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Due to the massive derailment in Palestein, OH, Norfolk Southern was forced to detour priority UPS trains, including this 29G, over the NYS&W via Binghamton. Seen here, TV-257 is seen passing thru Black Rock Cut along the former Erie Southern Tier coming into Port Jervis..
NYSW TV-257
NYSW SD70M-2 #4066
NS ES44DC #7683
NS ES44AC #8084
NS SD70ACC #1817
Altoona rebuild SD70ACC #1800, one of two lemon colored units on the NS roster leads NS coal train 746 down the Shenandoah Valley line at Stuarts Draft in the late evening.
CSX 4561, a rebuilt SD70MAC, is leading the CP645 on the Canadian Pacific Paynesville Sub at Maple Lake, Minnesota. Lots of local fans out for this one.
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NS’s B45 turn to Bellevue books it towards Oregon Yard as their crew hours dwindle. COMET is some of the only remaining searchlights from the original Wheeling and Lake Erie, and only one of two examples on this line alone.
Train: NS B45 with NS 1850 (SD70ACC), NS 9548 (C44-9W)
Norfolk Southern Toledo District
Williston, Ohio
Canadian Pacific's 645 train heads west for North Dakota with some eastern power at the helm as they ease across the Mississippi River. I caught wind of them in St. Paul and got to listen to them claw up the hill at the Westminster tunnels with their heavy train of sand loads in tow.
Eastbound 50X exits Big Sandy Tunnel 1, just west of the control point at Panco on the Kenova District, with an SD70ACC rebuild leading.
A quartet of SD70 variants bring Norfolk Southern #153 across Wells Viaduct near Toccoa, GA on their way south towards Atlanta and eventually Birmingham.
255 is led by NS 1826 on an absolutely perfect November day in central Illinois. Here, at Mosser, the train will break off the D Line and continue west on DH Line.
Originally built for the NS as their #2524 SD70M it has be rebuilt to an SD70MACC and is on the point of a set of empty's headed another load likely on the former Monongahela.
Sandwiching research car 32 are Norfolk Southern's newest stallions SD70ACC 1800 and 1801. The Pumkin Vine south out of Roanoke on Starkey Hill provides the perfect place to perform adhesion testing.
A CN SD70I, number 5620, leads train A497 south through the town of Pesotum. These SD70Is are beginning to go under a rebuild program, giving these locomotives new cabs as you would see on Norfolk Southern's SD70ACC locomotives.
NS SD70ACC class unit 1800 is seen leading westbound 217 through Keystone, WV on a crisp October afternoon.
A pair of NS rebuilds, one from Wabtec and one from Progress Rail, lead Norfolk Southern manifest freight 376 as it heads north over High Bridge, crossing over the Kentucky River in High Bridge, Kentucky. Completed in 1877 by the Cincinnati Southern Railway and standing 275 feet tall, it was the tallest bridge above a navigable waterway in North America and the tallest railroad bridge in the world until the early 20th century.
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NS CNO&TP First District
High Bridge, KY
NS 376 (Manifest; Rockport, IN to Middletown, OH)
NS 4644 AC44C6M Ex. NS 9511 C44-9W, NS 9511 C40-9W Blt. 2000
NS 1843 SD70ACC Ex. NS 2516 SD70 Blt. 1993
Norfolk Southern job U52 pass the CPL's at Vansant, VA with coal loads from Consol as they begin their trip up the Buchanan Branch towards the Pokey.
An NS manifest works its way towards towards River Rouge.
Train: NS 332 with NS 9615 (D9-44CW), NS 18?? (SD70ACC), NS 32?? (SD40-2)
Norfolk Southern Detroit District
Detroit, Michigan
With its journey over the Port Road Branch complete, NS 24M passes through the crossovers at PERRY and swings rightward toward its final destination of Baltimore. A single SD70ACC provides power today. Although 3800 feet long, the train is almost entirely baretables - the three containers up front were the only loads.
...Midwest Division of NS, that is. 255 rumbles west past Angle Crossing Rd. between Cerro Gordo and Oakley. The clouds almost got the best of me here, but thankfully broke just long enough for me to grab this shot. And of course, you guessed it, an ACC on the point.
The early February sky isn't doing much to help the lighting at Bobolink road bridge, as Canadian Pacific's westbound train 471, climbs out of the Reeseville Marsh basin. The leading locomotive is carrying a yellow "thoroughbred" mane, indicating this locomotive has been rebuilt from a DC powered unit to AC, making it more suitable for heavy tonnage.
CP 471
NS 1800, DPU NS 7532
Reeseville, WI.
February 10, 2022
Eastbound NS 740, with an SD70ACC rebuild leader, passes the site of the 826 derailment from May 2020 at Sprigg, WV. Almost 2 years later and not much had changed at the derailment site, which resulted in the single crossover being removed, as well as a pile of coal cars along the side of the right of way.
The first SD70ACC rebuild, 1800, leads manifest NS 353 west just past control point Montgomery on the Christiansburg district.
10-8-2021
NS SD70ACC specially painted class unit 1800 is seen ducking under one of the few remaining Southern style signals in Lowell, NC as it leads 153 southbound in the wee small hours.
NS 217 swings the curve in Keystone, Wv at the abandoned coal mine on the Pokey. The yellow SD70ACC rebuild #1800 leads the train toward Williamson, Wv for its next crew change.
Pan Am Southern 23K is seen heading west through Gardner, MA with SD70ACC 1840 leading the way. When the Pan Am sale is completed 23K and 22K will no longer traverse the Fitchburg Route but instead run via the B&A. Photo taken May 10, 2020.
Happy West Virginia Day to every West Virginian out there! For today's photo we have intermodal NS 217 blasting out of Roderfield Tunnel on the Pocahontas district with SD70ACC 1800 in the lead.
10-15-2020
Norfolk Southern train U52 rolls down the mountain at Hurley, VA on the Buchanan Branch. They'd meet #794 just ahead at Lester Fork and then tie down at Pine Oaks for the day.
NS 25V with brand new SD70ACC 1800 roars west through Salem just after sunset on the evening of Nov. 7, 2018.
It's golden hour at CP Wabic in Decatur as westbound Triple Crown train 255 departs for Moberly and eventually, Kansas City. As much as I normally enjoy including the Wabash coal tower (just out of frame to the left), the shot seems to work better without it. But hey, that's just my opinion. Leading, of course, is SD70ACC #1841 (shocker).
SD70ACC 1811 leads eastbound NS 194 through Superior, Wv on the Pocahontas district, seen here about to dive into Huger Tunnel.
Norfolk Southern SD70ACC leads train U52 past tracks full of coke and coal at Weller Yard in rural southwest Virginia as they begin their trip up the Buchanan Branch to the Pokey Mainline where they'd hang a left turn to Williamson, WV.
Herzog train 93Z rolls by the large Topflight Grain facility in Milmine, IL. The train would recrew in Decatur before heading south on the Brooklyn District to East St. Louis.
An SD70ACC rebuild leads intermodal NS 22A on an overcast morning through Elliston, Va. Here it's seen roaring over the north fork of the Roanoke River as it heads west toward Bristol, Va.
1-16-2021
SD70ACC 1848 kicks up the snow on the former Reading Lebanon Valley Branch as it flies through downtown Lebanon with eastbound 20E.
Entering a 10MPH slow order at CP YD on Conrail’s Shared Assets Line in River Rouge is NS 31M with a solo EMD SD70ACC No.1826 in the lead, as the split the G-Style Signals.
A mix of EMD and GE power led by rebuilt EMD SD70ACC #1833 crosses over Sherman Creek in Duncannon, PA as a some locals fish below.
NS 51D heads north through Greensboro behind a rebuilt SD70ACC. The smokestack dominating the right side of the scene is part of the UNC-Greensboro steam plant.
NS C12 creeps across the aging PRR Panhandle bridge over the Ohio River at Steubenville with recently outshopped NS SD70ACC 1808 leading. They had taken loaded coil cars from Mingo to Weirton in the morning and returned with the empties in the afternoon.
The crew of Terminal Railroad job T101 waits on the Broadway side for a signal at East Grand as NS SD70ACC #1800 charges up the river side with train 223. A little surprising since 101 was ready to go well in advance of 223 after working NS Luther yard; but their ultimate destination of TRRA's Madison yard was likely not ready for the train. As it turns out, 223 ended up getting stabbed at the Willows interlocking and waited out most of the rest of the afternoon.
Norfolk Southern manifest freight 310 charges through a winter storm in North East, Pennsylvania as it heads east behind lead unit NS 1819, one of NS's SD70ACC rebuilds.
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NS Lake Erie District
North East, PA
NS 310 (Elkhart, IN to Binghamton, NY)
NS 1819 SD70ACC Ex. NS 2546 SD70 Blt. 1994
NS 6971 SD60E Ex. NS 6568 SD60 Blt. 1985
NS 5294 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8099, PC 8099 Blt. 1973
(DPU) BNSF 6789 ES44C4 Blt. 2011
A fresh and new looking SD70ACC conversion is on the point of Detroit to Bellevue train NS 184 as it rolls through Vickers during lunchtime. Northwood, OH 12/23/19
An NS SD70ACC No. 1823 makes a really rare appearance leading the BNSF Q-SSEALT3 23A into Castle Rock during some good sunlight.
SD70ACC 1827 is on the head of loaded coal train NS 822 as it rushes east along the western end of the Christiansburg district. Here it's riding on the main 1 in Hardy, WV alongside Ingleside Rd.
5-24-2022
This location in Shawsville has become a favorite of mine. When all other spots have become dark and shaded at the end of the day, here on Basham Hollow Rd the sun lasts just a little while longer. You can shoot it a few different ways, but this is the best in my opinion. Here NS 201 works up Christiansburg grade with a new SD70ACC on point and a face full of late evening sun.
NS SD70ACC class unit 1800 blasts out of the Roderfield Tunnel & over the Tug Fork River with Chicago bound hotshot intermodal 217
Norfolk Southern empty coal train 595 makes its way west through CP-Solomon just east of downtown Pittsburgh with a rebuilt EMD SD70ACC leading. After curving through the city, the train will take the Ohio Connecting Bridge to the Mon Line, where it will head south for Shire Oaks yard and eventually back to Bailey Mine to be loaded.