#AND THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN

[locomotive-idiot]

You want a train picture?

HOW ABOUT THREE?

i will gracefully accept this as a late christmas gift this is wonderful

[railwayhistorical]

Adieu to the Roadrailer Here's an eastbound Triple Crown Roadrailer on the former Wabash. It's approaching the WABIC interlocking in the heart of Decatur, IL.

The Roadrailer service is scheduled to be terminated this coming weekend, replaced by a common stack train. It's nice to have seen something unique in the world of railroading: something increasingly difficult to do. One image by Richard Koenig; taken January 5th 2018.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Come to Virginia. The Land of Romance, Hospitality and Beauty. Norfolk and Western Railway. 1931.

[20th-century-railroading]

N&W train, engine number 2091, engine type 2-8-8-2 Westbound freight train; 63 cars, 40 MPH. Photographed: near Elliston, Va., August 3, 1936.

[zponds]

My Friends’ Tribute to Rachael Lillis

Hudson: Thank you, Rachael Lillis, for your job in voicing Misty Waterflower and Team Rocket Jessie.

Jason: You did a fantastic job with voicing those two, Rachael.

Perry: As well as Jigglypuff.

Torpedo: And Ursula from Dinosaur King.

Freddy: Regardless of how many voice roles you had, you did a great job voicing them all, Rachael.

Glenn: You brought joy to 90s kids with your role as Misty.

Otto: And Jessie and Jigglypuff too.

Madeleine: Your roles as those Pokémon characters will always be cherished.

Jimmy Guord: And you yourself will always be remembered and cherished.

Union: Your legacy will always be remembered.

Wasatch: Especially your legacy as the OG Misty and Jessie.

Peter Sam: We will always remember you and carry your legacy with us all.

Centennial: Rest in Peace, Rachael Lillis.

Rebecca: May you find peace in the afterlife.

Jessica: You deserved to live a healthy life full of happiness and love and joy.

Artemis: Veronica Taylor and Eric Stuart will miss you dearly, as they’ve been with you since the beginning.

Queen Roanoke: Your loss has not only left a major impact on the Pokémon community, your sister and your fellow actors, but also us locomotives.

Daylight: You didn’t deserve to pass away from breast cancer.

Zane: You were very cheerful and generous, always happy to greet those who wanted to meet you… especially in person.

Cincinnatian: We hope your sister, family and friends will be okay.

Chief: May God watch over your kind soul and be in peace.

Angeles: May we, including Veronica and Eric, one day, be reunited with you.

Rudolph: Your personality was as cheerful as your voice.

Angelo: Let us carry your memory within us forever more.

Donohue: May your soul join the purest and kindest of all.

Judith: You lived a legend and died a hero.

Stella: Until the day, Rachael Lillis, till all are one…

Red Robin: Till all are one…

Jewel: We all hope you find eternal peace up in heaven, being watched over by God. Rest in Peace…

These are the tributes that some of my friends from the 20 American railroads said for Racheal Lillis. After I told all my friends from the 20 American railroads about the passing of Rachael Lillis, they were all as devastated as I was. And they too wanted to pay their tributes to the OG Misty and Jessie.

[monstroso]

i love being on train twitter. Strasburg Railroad's 475 crashed into an excavator. this is essentially the equivalent of running into a wall with a $100,000 vase.

twitter is reacting as you might expect.

[aryburn-trains]

Powhatan Arrow on display

Norfolk & Western class J 4-8-4 No. 609 stands with a set of new cars for the Powhatan Arrow at Williamson, W.Va., during a 1950 display tour.

[alightinthelantern]

O. Winston Link - Sole North bound passenger train No. 2 crossing the 125' truss over the C&O at Natural Bridge Station, VA, 1957

[emmieexplores2]

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

So who was O. Winston Link, anyway?

O. WINSTON LINK MUSEUM, ROANOKE, VA: Outside of railfans (especially such fond of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which has long had a presence in Roanoke, one continuing in its contemporary form as Norfolk Southern) and students of photography, the name O. Winston Link (1914-2001) probably doesn't ring quite a bell.

But in the Blue Ridge country, his photography of tne Norfolk and Western Railway as it was preparing to make the transition from steam to diesel locomotion in the late 1950's is something of the stuff of legend. Especially a two-year initiative of his during 1955 and 1956 in particular, which featured plenty of night scenes of steam draped against backdrops rural, semi-urban and urban ... the sort, you might say, bound to strike the fascination of Super Snooper and Blabbermouse. Who, for some reason, decided to join our own party of vagabonds in Roanoke's former Norfolk and Western station, as houses the Roanoke Historical Museum, of which the O. Winston Link such is a part and parcel.

"It just seems particularly fascinating, Blab," Snoop could be heard remarking, "how one could situate a hotshot freight train in the background of a drive-in movie theater, with the inevitable pair of lovers kissing away in the foreground."

"And wondering what to pay the more attention to--the movie or the train," remarked I. (Which, you might like to know, was taken in the summer of 1956 in Iaeger, West Virginia.)

"It just gets me here, Snoop," Blabbermouse was quick to note on seeing a picture of a coal train passing through a small West Virginia town in the proverbial wee small hours of the night as the late shift waitress was being picked up from her shift at the local cafe. Like sentiment was directed at a nighttime wedge shot out of Luray, Virginia as the engine was preparing to take on water.

Crazy Claws was quick to chime in as well: "And you wonder how many flash bulbs he went through just to get the shot, to begin with!" (As a matter of fact, Link and his assistant, George Thom, relied on the asynchronous firing of no less than 42 #2 flashbulbs and one #0 flashbulb just to get that shot at the Iaeger drive-in. As Link himself famously explained that penchant of his for night photography in that project of N&W steam in its twilight, "I can't move the sun — and it's always in the wrong place — and I can't even move the tracks, so I had to create my own environment through lighting.")

Breathe in, then, such sentiment for times long past, bringing in a sense of moodiness in a landscape doubtless much changed. Yet it makes you wonder, especially as moi, Huck, Snoop and Blab took note of one shot of a gravity-feed gas pump at the local store in Vesuvius, Virgina as the N&W's premier overnight train, the Pocahontas, passed by at close range ... in the middle of a power outage affecting the village!

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[ironirma103]

[rodpower78]

Cotton Belt 4-8-4 #819, N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UnionPacific 4-8-4 #844 and SLSF 4-8-2 #1522 at the 1990 NHRS Convention at St. Louis Union Station in June 1990.

[railwayhistorical]

Butler, Indiana, Part Two

On the former New York Central/Penn Central/Conrail line here. Continuing from the previous post: just minutes later a manifest heads west.

Once again: the signals one sees in the last two shots is to protect for the Wabash/Norfolk & Western crossing just to the west a bit. Now all one sees here is the Norfolk Southern of course.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken July 30th 2024.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Norfolk and Western Railway. The Powhatan Arrow - The Pocahontas.

[20th-century-railroading]

N&W train, engine number 2175, engine type 2-8-8-2 Westbound freight train; 76 cars. Photographed: near Elliston, Va., June 26, 1950.

[zponds]

Having revealed my OCs from from the Burlington Route, Chicago & Northwestern, Milwaukee Road, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Baltimore & Ohio… I do have more OCs from nine additional railroads, and they are the…

Union Pacific ✅

Southern Pacific ✅

Northern Pacific ✅

Great Northern ✅

Santa Fe ✅

Norfolk & Western ✅

Southern Railway (USA) ✅

Seaboard Air Line ✅

Atlantic Coast Line ✅

Illinois Central ✅

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio ✅

Missouri Pacific ✅

Rock Island Railroad ✅

P.S.: a ✅ will show that I’ve completed the specific railroad.