Norfolk Southern
Author: Andrew Lisowski
Norfolk Southern, including predecessors Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western.
Photo Gallery
Southern Railway 2, northbound Southern Crescent. In the background is the George Washington Masonic Memorial.
Norfolk Southern GP50 7024 at Potomac Yard. High hood unit in Southern Railway livery.
Norfolk Southern B23-7 4002 running light on the Union Street Branch (industrial trackage between Alexandria Yard and Henry Street Yard). High hood unit in Southern Railway livery. This right-of-way is now Jamieson Avenue.
Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car NS27 at the 1987 Alexandria Waterfront Festival. The Exhibit Car is 1926 Pullman sleeping car Lake Childs as reconfigured by Southern Railway in 1971. In 1987, the car was in a grey livery. Later, it would be repainted in Tuscan with gold lettering.
Southern Railway FP7 3497 in a photo run-by at Calverton, VA. The A-A-A lashup was taking The Piedmont Special excursion, a Norfolk Southern Steam Special, back to Alexandria from Charlottesville. The lead FP7 was built as SR (CNO&TP) 6141in 1950.
Norfolk Southern B23-7 3986 at Manassas Yard. High hood unit in Southern Railway livery.
Central of Georgia boxcar in NS MoW service. Built 8-37. The Right Way logo.
Norfolk & Western boxcar B-101 converted as a MoW material car 515229. Marked CO SERVICE. At the former Southern Railway Alexandria Roundhouse in 1990.
Southern (CNO&TP) MoW Covered Hopper. Used in ballast or sand service.
Southern Railway RPO (Railway Post Office) car 36 in the Norfolk Southern Alexandria Yard in 1990. The restored car is now on display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Norfolk & Western Alco C630 1135. Displayed at teh Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Norfolk Southern GP38AC 2870 at the Van Dorn Street intermodal facility.
Norfolk & Western Camp Cars at Marshall, VA. Norfolk Southern is one of the last railroads to continue to use camp (bunk) cars.
Norfolk & Western ballast hopper 544227 MW.
Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5185 and GP38AC 2878 take an NRHS steam excursion from Alexandria to Manassas, VA. N&W 611 will take over at Manassas.
Norfolk Southern GP59 4610 in Southern Railway Centennial livery. Built in 1989, the unit wore SR colors from 1994 to 2011.On display at the first Manassas Railway Heritage Festival, June 1994. It was paired with the Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car.
Norfolk & Western MoW boxcar NW 52667 MW and Southern Railway boxcar 549921.
Norfolk Southern SD60M-2 2660 and and GP38-2 5026at Manassas Yard.
NS Aggregate Hopper 11313 at Manassas Yard.
Southern Railway boxcar 549898 at Manassas Yard.
Norfolk Southern Rock Train with aggregate hoppers.
Norfolk Southern DASH9-40CW 8900 northbound at Shepherdstown, WV.
Norfolk Southern Rock Train works the Vulcan Materials plant.
Norfolk Southern Rock Train passes Culpeper. VA.
Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5669 at Manassas Railroad Days.
Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5669 at Manassas Railroad Days.
Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car at the Manassas Railroad Days.
Southern Railway E8A 6900 at the Washington Union Station Centennial.
A Norfolk Southern freight passes Chapman's Mill in Thoroughfare Gap. The train is on the NS B Line between Manassas and Front Royal, the former line of the Manassas Gap Railway. About MP13.0 Leading is SD60 6670.