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This may come as a quite shock to many of you railfans, but I like Norfolk Southern. Go ahead, laugh, scoff, make snide remarks about why anyone would actually try to shoot NS black and white. I don't care. I know that they take a dim view of us railfans (but a lot that is our own fault, you know) and those black units with white lettering aren't all that exciting in most settings. But where I'm from, in the hills of West Virginia, where the exhaust of A's, J's and Y's used to reverberate off the mountain sides and echo down the valleys, black engines pulling black hoppers loaded with black diamonds will always look right.