NW Caboose - Collegedale, TN Norfolk & Western Caboose #518673 has been on display for over 15 years at a small city park in Collegedale, TN. The playground here has a train theme which is represented by the small logo on the left, Collegedale Express - Imagination Station.
Norfolk & Western Caboose - Huntsville, AL This caboose is part of the rolling stock on the grounds of the historic Huntsville Depot museum. The grounds are free to walk without buying a ticket to the museum.
Norfolk Southern Caboose #368 This caboose is located at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. This museum is at the old Central of Georgia Shops in Savannah, GA
NS Caboose 518589 - Oak Ridge, TN Norfolk Southern Cupola Caboose #518589 is owned by Knoxville Area Morel Railroaders. This club is located at the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge.
NW Caboose - Old Smoky Railway Museum The Old Smoky Railway Museum is a collection of rolling stock outside the historic Southern depot in Knoxville, TN.
Steam Train Mailbox Located in Chattanooga, near the NS Debutts Yard (which is why the NS logo is on a steam train).
A typical NS-CSX train Seen in Dalton, GA which is a good place for railfanning. Here, we have NS9228 paired with CSX7589 and CSX7606
Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car #NS27 This railroad car is brought to railfan events where Norfolk Southern has a corporate presence. It was seen at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's 2013 Railfest. Things on the Exhibit Car include models of each of NS Heritage Locomotives, an engineer simulator, and a photo booth.
Railfest 2013: NS #3052 Built as EMD GP40-2, this locomotive was originally Conrail. Seen at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Railfest 2013 as a fixed display.
Norfolk and Western Railway Passenger Station - Roanoke, VA This prominent Passenger Station along the Norfolk and Western line still stands in downtown Roanoke. It was built in 1904-05 and remodeled in 1947-49. The building is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District. Today there are a couple of interesting things inside the depot. First, is the Roanoke visitor's center. Also, there is the O. Winston Link museum, which is great for anyone who likes photos of steam trains. (be prepared to spend a lot of money in the gift shop.) Also preserved is the train schedule from June 19, 1955.
Pulaski, VA Train Depot The train station in Pulaski, VA was built of stone ca. 1888 and used by Norfolk & Western. In 2008, a huge fire gutted the building. After a couple years of extensive restoration, it's as good as new, and is now home to a Bicycle Shop.
Norfolk & Western #675 - Bluegrass Railway Seen at the Bluegrass Railway Museum in Versailles, KY is the N&W Diesel Locomotive #675 which is now used for most of their excursion trains. The Class GP-9 Engine was built by E.M.D. of General Motors. It was donated by Consolidated Coal Corporation of Pittsburgh PA. She was restored at the Mid-America Locomotive Works in Evansville, Indiana, painted in N&W freight black and placed back in operational service in 2007. 675 is equipped with dual control stands, both of which are still operational. This allows the engineer to run the locomotive from either side of the cab. When I was in the process of lining up this photo, a museum employee asked me to hold my pose so he could photograph me photographing the train. I guess I ought to ask them if I can get that picture from them. :)
Norfolk & Western #675 - Bluegrass Railway Seen at the Bluegrass Railway Museum in Versailles, KY is the N&W Diesel Locomotive #675 which is now used for most of their excursion trains. The Class GP-9 Engine was built by E.M.D. of General Motors. It was donated by Consolidated Coal Corporation of Pittsburg PA. She was restored at the Mid-America Locomotive Works in Evansville, Indiana, painted in N&W freight black and placed back in operational service in 2007. 675 is equipped with dual control stands, both of which are still operational. This allows the engineer to run the locomotive from either side of the cab.
Rural Retreat, VA I drove to see this old train station on the same day I visited the O. Winston Link museum in downtown Roanoke. There, I saw a picture he had taken of this same place, except his photo was taken at night, had a steam train ready to load passengers and was overall a more interesting picture. The wood building was built somewhere around 1870 and was used by Norfolk & Western.
Norfolk Southern Locomotive #3052 I was visiting this Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga when this train passed by on the nearby live tracks. Several Decades ago, the railroad decided it needed more freight capacity and built new tracks that go around Missionary Ridge. The museum takes advatage of the otherwise unused older tracks that pass through the historic Missionary Ridge Tunnel towards town. While you're at the museum seeing the vintage rolling stock on display, you might also see a modern train go by.
Salem, VA Passenger Depot For many years, thise depot served passengers of Norfolk & Western. Today, the building is used as a local Head Start office. The well maintained building was made in 1891 with a stone exterior.
Abingdon, VA Passenger Depot Built by Norfolk & Western in 1910. The building now houses the county Historical Society. It looks like there's almost a swiss look to the building. Next door is the old freight depot.
Dublin, VA Passenger Depot Built by Norfolk & Western. The look of this station reminds me of horse stables.
NW Caboose - Abingdon, VA The passenger and freight depots are both preserved on the south side of Abingdon. Next to the passenger depot is this well preserved Norfolk & Western caboose.
Norfolk & Western schedule - Roanoke, VA The important Norfolk & Western Railroad Depot in Roanoke, VA has been preserved for today's visitors. The building houses the O. Winston Link museum of Railroad Photography as well as a Roanoke Tourist Information Center. Also preserved is the train schedule board. Like a snapshot from a day in the past, the schedule shows all the incoming and outgoing passenger trains on June 19, 1955.
Radford, VA Railroad painting Radford is a medium-sized town with quite a railroad presence, with lots of NS trains running between the historic downtown and the river. At this particular spot in the parking lot, the fence keeping wayward souls from the tracks was painted with a nice train mural with the name of the town spelled out. I couldn't fully decipher the name, but looked like K. Smith 2010 Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.rumbleinthegarden.com/st-johns-baseball/2013/3/6/4064...
Norfolk and Western Caboose - Roanoke, VA Located behind the old N&W passenger station which is now a tourist ino center and O. Winston Link museum.
Norfolk Southern Caboose Most cabooses I see these days are displayed for heritage purposes, such as at train depot museums. It had been a while since I had seen one on live tracks. Seen in Radford, VA.
Norfolk & Western Caboose - Pulaski, VA Located in a new city park near the old Pulaski, VA train station which recently reopened after some remodelling.
Norfolk & Western Caboose - Rural Retreat, VA This is the first rectangular thing I've ever tried to photograph where the sun was so positioned in the sky in such a way where neither the left side nor the ride side was recieving direct sunlight, but was lined up to directly shine on only the front. Weird, huh?
Cheekwood: Trains! 1 State Capitol and Southern Trains! Tennessee in G is an exhbit at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville, TN running now through Dec. 2011. The Trains! exhibit is a unique blending of model trains and some of Tennessee's most iconic locations. The Garden Train exhibit was designed by Paul Busse of Applied Imagination of Alexandria, KY. Each of the buildings was designed using nature itself, such as sticks, twigs, tree bark, etc... The landscaping consists of over 2,500 tiny trees, shrubs and plants of over 250 varieties. There were seven different model trains running, a Southern Crescent passenger train, a Southern coal train, Chessie freight, Tweetsie Railroad, V&T RR, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Ladybug! I have a good sampling of the exhibit uploaded on flickr, but you can see all the photos on my website here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=nashville/cheekwood...
Marion, Va Train Station This Passenger Depot in Marion, VA was built by Norfolk & Western to serve Smyth County in 1904. Passenger service lasted until 1971. In the mid 90's a developer turned the building into retail space. The blue thing on the left is a shaved ice stand. Today, the Depot is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Southern Terminal - Knoxville This view of the depot was taken along Central St. Southern Railway was formed in the 1890s at the merging of two railroad companies. In 1902, Southern hired architect Frank Pierce Milburn to design new train stations at several of their major terminals. Two years later, the Southern Terminal opened in Knoxville. Many warehouses and factories surrounded this area because of its important shipping routes. The station looks today much the same as it did in 1904, except a large clock tower was removed in 1945 wen deemed structurally unsafe. The last passenger train came through in 1970. Today, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places as the integral part of The Southern Terminal and Warehouse District, an area which is today known as Old City. This passenger station and the freight depot next door are designed in a similar style with Classical Revival influence. Most notable is the corbel-stepped gabled roof.
Greeneville TN Train Depot This depot was built by Southern Railway and is now owned by Norfolk Southern. One of the main roads into town goes under the tracks here, but if you drive to a nearby street, you are back at track level. I got out of my car and walked a short distance to get this picture. It's the only time so far a cop asked me what I was doing, but when I said I was sightseeing, the cop was cool about it.
A red caboose in somebody's yard This was in someone's yard, there were no train tracks leading into it, so I guess they just wanted one. It was along highway U.S. 11 in Loudon County, Tennessee
