Norfolk Southern (NS) 3462 - EMD SD40-2

Freight car consist, NS P70 leaving Augusta, GA.

Freight car consist, NS P70 leaving Augusta, GA.

Freight car consist, NS P70 leaving Augusta, GA.

NS P70 leaving Augusta, GA.

Rear unit for one of several yard jobs working Hayne Yard on the morning of October 10th, 2024.

One of several yard jobs at Norfolk Southern's Hayne Yard switches cars at the Hayne Junction end of the yard next to the Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds on a hot fall morning.

NS local P86 flies around the curve at Brawley Street in Spartanburg, SC headed back to Hayne Yard after working industries on the historic "W" Line.

West Bound NS

A fresh NS 3462 trailing 3rd out.

Cool trio of older EMD locos hauls freight cars from the USA into Duff Yard in Fort Erie for the daily transfer. The Niagara Railway Museum, located in the former CN Diesel Maintenance Shop, is seen under the new Central Avenue overpass.

It must be SD40 day at Fort Erie. After catching one on the point of the CN freight transfer, two more showed up on this Norfolk Southern train as it rumbles off the International Bridge.

H60 creeps into Enola at 1709.

I caught these two NS locomotives switching cars on the Canada side at Fort Erie.

Just as this Norfolk Southern train emerged from the International Bridge, the late afternoon sunshine lit up its two fine SD40-2 rebuilds.

SD40-2

Built October 1978 as BN 7077.

Built October,1978 as BN 7077.

Wyomissing Jct at 1417.

16T approaches the junction with a quintet of engines at 1417.

Shoving through downtown Roanoke on its way back to the yard

Northbound transfer NS G88 with NS 3583 SD40-2 leader

NS Southbound Local Freight Train G39 doing some switching in Hiram, Ga.

THIS SPOT NEVER LETS ME DOWN! NS 8920 LEADS 9919 AND 3462 OUT OF THE BROSNAN YARD AND NORTH TOWARDS ATLANTA.

NS 152