RARE 1999 footage of Norfolk Southern cab ride from Norton to Andover Va --for serious railfans only

Railfans! Here's a close-up of Norfolk Southern in 1999. No thrills, just rare shaky cam looks at basic operations such as:
Connecting locomotives
Receiving orders via radio
Flipping switches
Sounding horn
Adjusting throttle, etc...
Setting brake(?)
Cab chatter
Squealing wheels
Includes sections of 11-mile cab ride through Virginia Coal Country.
Engineer, other crew and videographer are unknown.

[@AppalachianRailfan99]

Norton yard looks absolutely unrecognizable in this, due to all the activity, Norton yard is just an empty lot of tracks, such a shame. Glad this video exists

[@samh3029]

So this lead unit (6106) is a low short-hood SD40-2 set up to run LHF. The other long hoods were also marked F for being front.

[@jonmoore4919]

Those seats were complete garbage! I never move around equipment without gloves on!

[@25mfd]

@ 6:02... the engr throwing switches????... where's the condr????

[@raritanbayrailfan2558]

I dnt kno but u ned bttr grammr

[@25mfd]

@@raritanbayrailfan2558 don't worry, engr and condr are authorized GCOR abbreviations.

[@larrydockery7201]

this vid was done on my birthday thanks i sure miss the railroad

[@larrydockery7201]

now this was the good old days of railroading there was nothing like the sd40s 45s great vid