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I'll be visiting Roanoke later this month, so I look forward to seeing more of your photos!
Yes Tim, it is winter. Have I ever mentioned how much I love it? 
The snow, the austere landscape, the darkening skies--it's for me! I have a few from the past week. First shot is a BNSF manifest approaching Ruthton, MN. (I was using a 400mm lens and train was very far off.) A light snow was coming down as the sun was ending its shift. Second shot, the train goes by. Ruthton elevator in the left corner. Final shot, n/b BNSF ethanol train passes by an abandoned church near Willmar, MN. I likely only have another month of good winter weather, and my plan is to be out there in it!
Kent in SD
Three hits, no misses, Kent. You're up to your usual high standard.
Tim, interesting photos, thanks. One reminded me of what a really good railroad the Norfolk & Western was, and I had heard about Hotel Roanoke, but never seen a photo. What a graceful building it is, and I know in my heart that the service is typically courtly Virginian.
It seems I haven't seen the sun between 7 AM and 5:30 in four weeks. I was cheered up by thinking I heard a robin singing in a snow squall last week.Last Sunday the Illinois Terminal heritage unit brought some color to the old New York Central in Upstate New York, as it led an oil train into the port of Albany. I believe this is the first time a NS heritage unit has run through Selkirk.
We begin our chase in a snow squall at Lock 10, just east of Amsterdam, and chase the train about 30 miles east into Selkirk, where the sun finally peeped out.
Great photos...man that IT power is bright...
Back to more Roanoke photos. Thanks for your patience 
The landscaping at the Hotel Roanoke is just spectacular.
The Virginia Museum of Transportation covers all types of transportation, including rocket power. This missile is visible from I-581 as you are driving through town. It definitely tells the casual traveler not to mess with Roanoke LOL The white track on the ground is part of an historic walking trail through the city.
A map of the N&W route along the trail.
Norfolk Southern equipment stored in the yards; some under cover and others not.
Now onto the trains at VMT. Steam stars No. 611 and 1218 are staged with N&W 2-8-0 no. 6.
The outside of the business car...
Some of the interior furnishing. Could use a good dusting.
But more work is going on in the car, so no need to clean it if it will only get dirty as the work progresses. I found this portrait interesting in among the repairs.
Not all of the collection is pristine. But I would say it is all interesting.
An N&W Alco switcher. A T-6?
A cool collection of trucks in the yard, too, including this Dodge truck and Ford Fire truck.
Engines were being painted when I visited. The N&W bicentennial Geep would be re-dedicated a few weeks later, so things were getting spruced up all over the area.
Needing more than a spruce-up is this locomotive, one of the "lost engines of Roanoke."
Just past the fence is the very busy NS line through town, which was at one time the original N&W main line.
Another neat truck. Overnite delivery van.
Tim,
Great series of photos..... Thanks.
Chris
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