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During lunch, I went out to catch NS 224 in the rain as it had the latest heritage unit, the TA&G unit. This is their first AC44C6M heritage unit

As the cloudless sky reflects on the undisturbed Susquehanna River, NS Autorack train 18N slowly navigates the Rockville Bridge as it prepares to enter Harrisburg, PA.

NS 4822, named "Moving The Weight Of The World" in dedication to the NS employees, is seen leading the Reading Railroad heritage unit and the NS OCS fleet as it rolls through the small yard in Lexington, Ky. By dumb luck, we happened to be in Lexington for a few days for the National Mine Rescue Competition, and caught wind from my buddy Aiden Davis that this thing would be running. Even more so, upon a little railfan exploration, we found NS 911 tied down in the yard for local first responder training. Before heading home, we came back trackside and waited a good hour for the consist to roll through, framing a meet of many units of interest,

B241 train in Richmond, KY. Leading locomotive 3089 (pictured)

Words can’t describe how it felt to feel cold for the first time in months after a summer of record heat in Virginia, but this cool August morning in the heart of Appalachia allowed us to briefly escape the 80 and 90 degree temperatures.

Empty Limestone train 69Q winds through the New River Valley in Willowton, WV as it approaches the junction to the Princeton-Deepwater District.

Virginia Division Local V34 with Admiral Cab SD40-2 #3264 leading waits for Intermodal 277 to pass before following the train up the Christiansburg District.

Norfolk Southern’s new Railroader Appreciation unit, AC44C6M #4822, leads the Reading Lines heritage unit and 12 OCS cars on a deadhead move to Altoona, PA.

Despite the sun finally peeking through the clouds, light rain continued to fall as this short 13R came flying through White Post, VA.

As it often happens, clouds moved in right before the train passed and cleared after it was done. Nonetheless, I’ll take a decent drone picture of the first NS AC44C6M in any conditions.

Newly rebuilt AC44C6M #4798, rebuilt from D9-44CW #9643, leads Manifest 18W east on the NS Christiansburg District on one of its first trips on the open rails.

BNSF F-NS430D8-19N waits on the BN/NS joint line for a northbound CN to clear

NS 19K with the new 'Moving the Weight of the World' unit leading blasts southbound towards Wabash and Decatur as it rolls by the CereServ grain elevator near Leesburg.

Eastbound Roadrailer 256 rolls through Wabash by the city park as the sun begins to set off to the west.

NS 4408 leads a extra train onto the wye in Greensboro NC. Waiting for clearance to proceed onto the wye, and then to back into Pomona Yard

NS 223? rolls by Vanarsdall on a very cold January evening

Manifest 18N and loaded coal train NS 590 race down the curve.

NS 4157 and a Ferromex SD70ACe lead the B-CHCSTP through Prescott.

Conrail Heritage unit 8098 leads Norfolk Southern train W10-29 on former Conrail rails as it heads East through Attica, NY over Tonawanda Creek.

A C6M and T4 ACe power NS 229 by Crawford, Florida on 7/3/22. With the CSX ST70s now gone, the UP T4 ACes are all Floridians can see of the loco type if they come down on CSX or NS.