T59, with white "extra" class light lit, sits at Balsam while the conductor sets the retainers. The downgrade for the next several miles east is very steep, upwards of 5%. This Tuesday run consist... (more)
T59 heads east a few miles from it's destination. Normally the train would not run on a Tuesday and normally it would stop in Sylva, but today the train ran on rarely used trackage to Dillsboro to... (more)
Eastbound BRS train W44 slowly creeps its way down the W-Line as it crosses I-40 in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A Blue Ridge Southern train has just entered NS tracks and is headed for the Yard to interchange cars with NS. Here, he is ducking below the classic Southern Railway cantilever style signal bridge... (more)