#norfolk & western

[emeraldexplorer2]

A publicity photo of Norfolk Western's newly reequippedPowhatan Arrow (Norfolk - Cincinnati), led by 4-8-4 #609 (J), taken at Singer, Virginia (a few miles west of Roanoke) on December 8, 1949.

#vintage #vintage americana #trains #passenger train #vintage trains #vintage railroads #railroad #train travel #norfolk western #powhatan arrow #1949 #virginia

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

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

#railroad #VA #Virginia #1930s #Norfolk and Western #train #transportation #railway #ephemera #tourism

[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.

#n&w #norfolk & western #1936 #trains #freight train #history #elliston #virginia

[locomotive-idiot]

You want a train picture?

HOW ABOUT THREE?

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

#THE J #THE A #THE PRR #THE VIRGINIAN #THE SWITCHER #AND THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN #THERES NO STOPPING US #SERVICE YOU CAN COUNT ON #FROM PEOPLE YOU CAN TRUST #WHEN ITS CARGO MOVING TIME #ITS TIME TO PUT IT ON THE LINEEEEEEEEE #ON NORFOLK AND WESTERN #THERES NO STOPPING USSSSS #trainposting #train propaganda #asks #ask response #locomotive #trains #train museums please visit them i beg

[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.

#i need a new text post tag i guess #strasburg railroad #norfolk and western 475 #ray plays trains

[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.

#powhatan arrow #n&w #norfolk & western #1950 #norfolk #cincinnati #trains #passenger train #history #williamson #west virginia

[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

#O. Winston Link #trains #photography #1950s #Sole N bound passenger train No. 2 crossing the 125' truss over the C&O at Natural Bridge Station VA #Norfolk & Western #N&W #J Class

[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.

#union pacific #southern pacific #northern pacific #great northern #santa fe #norfolk and western #southern railway #seaboard airline #illinois central #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #ttte #ttte oc #the genie team #gulf mobile & ohio #atlantic coast line #missouri pacific

[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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#hanna barbera #fanfic #fanfiction #road trip #postcards from snagglepuss #huckleberry hound #unlikely crossovers #super snooper and blabbermouse #o. winston link #o. winston link museum #night photography #night photoshoot #rail photography #norfolk and western railway #steam's twilight #hannabarberaforever

[ironirma103]

#steam locomotives #southern pacific #SP #union pacific #big boy #norfolk and western

[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.

#cotton belt #norfolk & western #union pacific #slsf #railroad #frisco railroad #steam locomotive #union station #st. louis #missouri #1990

[rastronomicals]

11:49 AM EST January 3, 2024:

John Fahey -   "Enigmas And Perplexities Of The Norfolk And Western" From the album Railroad (1983)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

John Peel's was the 1983 Takoma LP

File under: American Primitive Guitar

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#John Fahey #Railroad #Enigmas And Perplexities Of The Norfolk And Western

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

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

#Virginia #Richmond #Railway #trains #railroad #Powhatan #pocahontas #Norfolk and Western #blotter #advertising #vintage #VA

[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.

#n&w #norfolk & western #1950 #trains #freight train #history #elliston #virginia

[crownedstoat]

All aboard

#railroad #passenger train #1940's #Norfolk and Western

[littlewestern]

Update on the Strasburg 475 situation from facebook:

For those who haven't seen yet. The full post is also included in text format in the image description.

#strasburg railroad #norfolk and western 475 #strasburg 475 #strasburg 11/2 #tl;dr the damage is apparently not as bad as it looks and they're saying they'll have her in steam again by next week #they also called the online speculation a 'lynch-mob' which is... a choice