By Jeff Sturgeon, The Roanoke Times, Va. Nov. 15--Railroad buffs have garnered more than $500,000 of the $2.2 million needed to renovate the fire-damaged former Virginian Railway train station property in Roanoke.

By Gregory Richards and Linda Mcnatt, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Mar. 20--SUFFOLK -- A coal train derailment near the Suffolk Golf Course halted traffic Monday on Norfolk Southern Corp.'s main rail corridor in and out of Hampton Roads.

By Gregory Richards, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Mar. 18--For 21 years, Allen Howard savored the view from his home, perched on a hill in Elliston, a village just west of Roanoke.

By Susan Williams, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Aug. 20--ANSTED -- Starting in 1890, when Col. William Nelson Page wanted to ride the rails, he stepped onto the train from his private stop near his house.

By GARY RUEGSEGGER BY GARY RUEGSEGGER CORRESPONDENT NORFOLK Standing in the middle of the new Norfolk Southern Museum, retired railroad man Floyd R. Wade Jr. was taking it all in the badges and bells, the signals and switches, the watches and whistles.