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Viewing Album:  Norfolk Southern's "W" Line
 
By:Moss Miller
Dates:1/1/2010 - 1/1/2020
Album Info:The oldest continuously operating railroad mainline in North America. Runs from Asheville, NC, to Spartanburg, SC. (Section from Hendersonville to Landrum closed.) Then from Spartanburg to Columbia and Columbia to Charleston. The section from Spartanburg to Columbia is dark territory.
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Creeping Along
Title:  Creeping Along
Description:  NS 3266 creeps through the Country Cub Road Grade Crossing at C.P. East Spartanburg. I believe this is my oldest railroad photo on the site.
Photo Date:  4/21/2010  Upload Date: 7/24/2012 3:06:01 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 3266(SD40-2)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
NS 9255
Title:  NS 9255
Description:  Vulcan quarry power entering the spur at Pacolet on a hot August day.
Photo Date:  8/23/2011  Upload Date: 7/21/2012 6:18:06 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 9255(C40-9W)
Views:  302   Comments: 1
NS Camp Cars
Title:  NS Camp Cars
Description:  Norfolk Southern decided to park one of their camp car trains on one of the old industrial spurs right next to the Hub City Rail Trail. It sat there about two weeks and then mhved on to whereever.
Photo Date:  3/5/2012  Upload Date: 3/29/2012 7:36:58 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Views:  2247   Comments: 0
NS 3370
Title:  NS 3370
Description:  NS P42 rounds a curve on the "W" line in Inman, SC.
Photo Date:  4/2/2012  Upload Date: 7/25/2012 8:53:45 PM
Location:  Inman, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3370(SD40-2) NS 6165(SD40-2)
Views:  474   Comments: 1
NS 5424
Title:  NS 5424
Description:  Rear view of NS 5424.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 7/19/2012 3:13:17 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 5424(SD50)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
NS 5424
Title:  NS 5424
Description:  One of the few last NS diesels still in Conrail paint sits in downtown Pacolet, SC, waiting for its call to pull its next load, the Vulcan rock train.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:25:53 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 5424(SD50)
Views:  326   Comments: 1
NS 5424
Title:  NS 5424
Description:  My teenaged brother and sister, RRP. contributers Sam and Margaret Miller shooting photos in Pacolet.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 7/25/2012 8:50:19 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5424(SD50)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
NS 5424
Title:  NS 5424
Description:  Two of an endangered species: A Conrail SD50 and a very old depot.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 7/25/2012 8:48:13 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 5424(SD50)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
NS 3536
Title:  NS 3536
Description:  NS P86 with the power from 63R heading back to Hayne.
Photo Date:  11/23/2012  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 5:50:21 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3536(B32-8) NS 9642(C40-9W) NS 7659(ES40DC)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
NS 3536
Title:  NS 3536
Description:  NS P86, a lone B32-8 slows down to enter into the siding at Pacolet to pick up the power from last night's train, 63R, and take it back to Spartanburg for servicing.
Photo Date:  11/23/2012  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 5:51:11 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 3536(B32-8)
Views:  299   Comments: 1
NS 6121
Title:  NS 6121
Description:  NS P86 heads south on the "W" line led by two SD40-2s long hood forward.
Photo Date:  1/4/2013  Upload Date: 1/8/2013 2:08:55 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6121(SD40-2) NS 3235(SD40-2)
Views:  653   Comments: 2
NS 5561
Title:  NS 5561
Description:  NS 905, with 5561 up front, leads nne of two Norfolk Southern track geometry trains past East Spartanburg, on the "W" line, the oldest continuesly operating mainline in North America.
Photo Date:  2/25/2013  Upload Date: 2/27/2013 4:20:29 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5561(GP38-2) NS 38(Track Test Unit)
Views:  813   Comments: 0
NS P86 Led By a Venerable Geep.
Title:  NS P86 Led By a Venerable Geep.
Description:  NS P86 rumbles past East Spartanburg on a beautiful early spring morning.
Photo Date:  4/3/2013  Upload Date: 4/8/2013 5:08:13 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7048(GP50)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description:  An NS camp car train sits in the spur at East Spartanburg, next to the Hub City Rail Train.
Photo Date:  5/14/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2029 1:26:36 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Views:  295   Comments: 1
NS 2566
Title:  NS 2566
Description:  Granite train 62R (Pacolet, SC to Charleston, SC) blasts through the small town of Jonesville at top track speed.
Photo Date:  6/4/2013  Upload Date: 6/5/2013 7:02:57 PM
Location:  Jonesville, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2566(SD70) NS 7523(ES40DC)
Views:  406   Comments: 3
NS 3262
Title:  NS 3262
Description:  NS P86 flies past packing material company Exopack's corporate headquarters heading towards the BASF plant about a mile down the tracks.
Photo Date:  6/13/2013  Upload Date: 6/13/2013 3:43:05 PM
Location:  White Stone, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3262(SD40-2)
Views:  383   Comments: 2
NS 9930
Title:  NS 9930
Description:  NS 9930 and 2708 sit in the engine track in Pacolet awaiting P86 to pick them up and take them to Hayne.
Photo Date:  6/14/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:12:06 AM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9930(C40-9W)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
South Carolina Made!
Title:  South Carolina Made!
Description:  Summer 2013 gets off to a good start in terms of railfanning. NS 28T, the daily loaded train of BMWs from Greer to Charleston, gallops around the curve at East Spartanburg.
Photo Date:  6/22/2013  Upload Date: 6/24/2013 5:00:39 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9935(C40-9W) NS 8937(C40-9W)
Views:  330   Comments: 3
NS 9847
Title:  NS 9847
Description:  NS 9847 idles as the engineer waits on the conductor to uncouple the train of primarily camp cars. The track that this train is on is the old "W" line mainline, which now takes a different route. Pretty rough track for a former mainline, huh?
Photo Date:  7/13/2013  Upload Date: 7/19/2013 4:26:26 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Views:  251   Comments: 1
NS 9847
Title:  NS 9847
Description:  NS 9847, the power for local P86, shoves its train of camp cars and MOW equipment into the former "W" line mainline (it now takes a different route just to the East of the old mainline).
Photo Date:  7/13/2013  Upload Date: 7/19/2013 4:25:38 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
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Views:  212   Comments: 0
NS 9847
Title:  NS 9847
Description:  NS P86 slows on the curve at East Spartanburg to prepare to shove their trail into the former "W" line mainline, now a spur and rail trail, and drop off their cars.
Photo Date:  7/13/2013  Upload Date: 7/19/2013 4:24:08 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Views:  190   Comments: 0
HZGX 205
Title:  HZGX 205
Description:  NS 96Q, a Herzog tie train, past Camp Croft, heading Eestbound on the "W" line.
Photo Date:  1/14/2014  Upload Date: 1/14/2014 4:59:56 PM
Location:  Camp Croft, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HZGX 205(GP40-3)
Views:  378   Comments: 4
HZGX 205
Title:  HZGX 205
Description:  Herzog tie train, NS 96Q, past Camp Croft on the "W" line.
Photo Date:  1/14/2014  Upload Date: 1/14/2014 5:04:00 PM
Location:  Camp Croft, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  HZGX 205(GP40-3)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
HZGX 205
Title:  HZGX 205
Description:  NS 96Q slowly works its way through Pacolet, picking up used ties.
Photo Date:  1/16/2014  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 3:16:01 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HZGX 205(GP40-3)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
HZGX 205
Title:  HZGX 205
Description:  HZGX GP40-3 #205.
Photo Date:  1/16/2014  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 3:17:57 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HZGX 205(GP40-3)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
HZGX 205
Title:  HZGX 205
Description:  NS 96Q slowly works its way through Pacolet, picking up used ties.
Photo Date:  1/16/2014  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:49:19 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HZGX 205(GP40-3)
Views:  278   Comments: 1
NS 3425
Title:  NS 3425
Description:  The power for P86 backing into the Gonvauto plant at Union to pick up a number of empty steel coil cars.
Photo Date:  2/27/2014  Upload Date: 2/28/2014 11:34:59 AM
Location:  Union, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3425(SD40-2)
Views:  251   Comments: 2
NS 3425
Title:  NS 3425
Description:  NS 3425 is dwarfed by the Gonvauto plant. The conductor can be seen behind the engine at the door into the facility. He tried to open it but ended up setting off the burglar alarm!
Photo Date:  2/27/2014  Upload Date: 2/28/2014 11:35:17 AM
Location:  Union, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
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Locomotives:  NS 3425(SD40-2)
Views:  292   Comments: 2
NS 3408
Title:  NS 3408
Description:  NS P86 rounds the curve at East Spartanburg with a very short cut of cars in tow.
Photo Date:  4/12/2014  Upload Date: 4/23/2014 4:54:30 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3408(SD40-2)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
NS 3021
Title:  NS 3021
Description:  NS P86 crosses the Pine Street Bridge at East Spartanburg.
Photo Date:  6/20/2014  Upload Date: 7/6/2014 8:22:14 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3021(GP40-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 1
NS 3563
Title:  NS 3563
Description:  NS P86 flies past Magnolia with a VERY newly repainted SD40-2 leading the way.
Photo Date:  7/29/2014  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 5:25:31 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3563(SD40-2)
Views:  437   Comments: 1
NS 9578
Title:  NS 9578
Description:  NS 955 through Whitestone with a single coach in tow.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 11/4/2014 9:44:43 PM
Location:  White Stone, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9578(C40-9W)
Views:  202   Comments: 1
NS 8893
Title:  NS 8893
Description:  NS 237 flies across S. Pine Street in Spartanburg, SC with the Conrail heritage unit second out.
Photo Date:  12/13/2014  Upload Date: 12/14/2014 9:07:27 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8893(C40-9W) NS 8098(ES44AC)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
NS 3333
Title:  NS 3333
Description:  NS P86 flies abross S. Pine Street headed eastbound on the "W" Line.
Photo Date:  1/10/2015  Upload Date: 1/10/2015 6:22:40 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3333(SD40-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
NS 7132
Title:  NS 7132
Description:  NS P86 flies through Pacolet with a GP60 leader.
Photo Date:  3/7/2015  Upload Date: 3/8/2015 10:38:44 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7132(GP60) NS 3416(SD40-2) NS 6079(SD40-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 1
NS 7132
Title:  NS 7132
Description:  NS P86 flies through Camp Croft with a GP60 leader.
Photo Date:  3/7/2015  Upload Date: 3/8/2015 10:37:52 PM
Location:  Camp Croft, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7132(GP60) NS 3416(SD40-2) NS 6079(SD40-2)
Views:  287   Comments: 2
NS 1073
Title:  NS 1073
Description:  My first attempt at a panning shot may not be the greatest, but it least it's an effort! Seen here is 62R with the Penn Central Heritage Unit leading the way into the Vulcan Quarry in Pacolet, SC.
Photo Date:  3/27/2015  Upload Date: 3/30/2015 8:40:10 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 1073(SD70ACe)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
NS 3507
Title:  NS 3507
Description:  NS 944 glides through Spartanburg's most prestigious neighborhood Converse Heights with two SD40-2s leading the way.
Photo Date:  4/25/2015  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 1:42:00 PM
Location:  Springdale, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3507(SD40-2)
Views:  476   Comments: 0
NS 6948
Title:  NS 6948
Description:  The power from the previous day's 63R sits adjacent to the old Southern depot in Pacolet, SC.
Photo Date:  7/9/2015  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 10:47:14 AM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6948(SD60E)
Views:  350   Comments: 1
NS 5126
Title:  NS 5126
Description:  NS P86 sits on the main at Pacolet waiting on a track gang in Jonesville to clear.
Photo Date:  10/30/2015  Upload Date: 10/30/2015 9:33:49 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5126(GP38-2)
Views:  315   Comments: 1
VULX 8409
Title:  VULX 8409
Description:  VULX (Vulcan Materials) #8409 sits at the end of the loading tracks at the company's Pacolet, SC, granite quarry. The unit is a GP10, bulit for the Illinois Central RR in May of 1954 by EMD. The unit was then abondened in Chicage and was finally purchased and rebuilt for the Vulcan Corporation.The unit serves the largest granite quarry in the Southeastern US in Pacolet, SC. A huge shoutout to Ron Bishop for showing me this cool pieace of American railroad history. Photo taken with permission.
Photo Date:  11/12/2015  Upload Date: 11/14/2015 8:38:42 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
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Views:  341   Comments: 0
VULX 8409
Title:  VULX 8409
Description:  VULX (Vulcan Materials) #8409 sits at the end of the loading tracks at the company's Pacolet, SC, granite quarry. The unit is a GP10, bulit for the Illinois Central RR in May of 1954 by EMD. The unit was then abondened in Chicage and was finally purchased and rebuilt for the Vulcan Corporation.The unit serves the largest granite quarry in the Southeastern US in Pacolet, SC. A huge shoutout to Ron Bishop for showing me this cool pieace of American railroad history. Photo taken with permission.
Photo Date:  11/12/2015  Upload Date: 11/14/2015 8:37:51 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
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Views:  618   Comments: 1
NS 3371
Title:  NS 3371
Description:  NS P86 gets underway after swapping cars at Univar.
Photo Date:  11/13/2015  Upload Date: 11/13/2015 12:00:56 AM
Location:  Camp Croft, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3371(SD40-2)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
NS 3243
Title:  NS 3243
Description:  NS P86 past Whitestone with a cut of camp cars in tow.
Photo Date:  11/21/2015  Upload Date: 11/21/2015 8:26:51 PM
Location:  White Stone, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3243(SD40-2) NS 3484(SD40-2)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
NS 3243
Title:  NS 3243
Description:  NS P86 passes a cut of MOW cars in the siding at Camp Croft with camp cars in tow. Moments later, P86 would pick up the other cut and take them back to Hayne Yard in Spartanburg, SC. The MOW equipment and camp cars were being used by a crew working on rebuilding the bridge over the Broad River near Columbia on the "W" Line, which was washed out by the 1000 year flood in October.
Photo Date:  11/21/2015  Upload Date: 11/21/2015 8:21:21 PM
Location:  Camp Croft, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3243(SD40-2) NS 3484(SD40-2)
Views:  319   Comments: 3
UP 8189
Title:  UP 8189
Description:  NS 237 rumbles past East Spartanburg headed to Hayne, Greer, and on to Atlanta.
Photo Date:  12/8/2015  Upload Date: 12/13/2015 8:19:38 PM
Location:  East Spartanburg, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8189(ES44AC-H)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
NS 3309
Title:  NS 3309
Description:  NS 3309 (the power for today's P86) shoves two boxcars back towards its train after switching the Georgia Pacific plant at Whitestone, SC.
Photo Date:  12/16/2015  Upload Date: 12/16/2015 11:21:00 PM
Location:  White Stone, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3309(SD40-2)
Views:  174   Comments: 1
NS 9518
Title:  NS 9518
Description:  NS 62R idles in the lead to the Vulcan granite quarry at Pacolet, SC.
Photo Date:  3/22/2016  Upload Date: 3/24/2016 1:18:42 AM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9518(C44-9W)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
NS 9879
Title:  NS 9879
Description:  NS 62R idles in the lead to the Vulcan granite quarry at Pacolet, SC.
Photo Date:  6/20/2016  Upload Date: 7/3/2016 5:29:00 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9879(C44-9W)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
NS 3283
Title:  NS 3283
Description:  NS P86 pncks up speed after passing 62R moments before in Pacolet, SC.
Photo Date:  8/25/2016  Upload Date: 8/26/2016 10:03:01 PM
Location:  Pacolet, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
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Views:  83   Comments: 0

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