Lehigh Valley Coal Co 0-6-0 saddle tank engine #126, has the North Carolina Transportation Museum caboose train in tow.
Fall peak has arrived in western North Carolina as Great Smoky Mountains 2-8-0 #1702 heads west out of Bryson City with the railroad’s ever popular Nantahala Gorge Excursion.
For one day, to join N&W #611's return to the rails, famed #501 was dressed to play the part of an ACL locomotive on loan to the Norfolk & Western, replicating the 1958-59 period where such a thin... (more)
Looking as she might have when demoted from the major trains to local service this classic is actually taking the short trip around the museum property. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collect... (more)
An ex-Waccamaw Coastline GP18 leads a passenger excursion pulling out of the small town of Conway, South Carolina in June 2004. The ancestry of this locomotive seems obvious as the Norfolk & Weste... (more)
Even though the days of pulling TOFC freight through the Rathole or dragging wood chip hoppers over the Old Fort loops is over, this venerable work horse still gets to clean the carbon out of its ... (more)
A critter sits at the South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 2007 along with other small locomotives and a few boxcars from various roads. The unit was built in 1946 and is... (more)
Visitors at the NC Transportation Museum pause to marvel at the 6133 rounds a curve heading back to Barber Junction.
Southern Crescent preparring to stop at Barber Junction
Southern 6133 sits at the depot at Barber Jct. at the North Carolina Transportation on a clear Winter day.
GSMR 1702 leads the Nantahala Gorge train through the gorge
GSMR 1702 leads the Tuckasseegee River train up Ferguson Hill
Rockton, Rion & Western 2015 battles kudzu as it approaches the Highway 321 crossing in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 2005. At this point in the museum's existence, the road had to be flagged by th... (more)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad FL9 #2019 with a passenger excursion at the Streamliners Event in Spencer, North Carolina in May 2014.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad FL9 2019 with a passenger excursion at the Streamliners Event in Spencer, North Carolina in May 2014.
