The 80's movie "Brewster's Millions" opened with a scene where the train crawls through the outfield of a minor league baseball game. It's not quite that extreme at Fluor Field, home of... (more)
The Lackawana heritage unit leads 213 south on the Piedmont Division, crossing a swollen Saluda River as it approaches the south end of the Greenville area double track at Crosswell.
N312, coal loads for Cliffside, crosses the Catawba River and Lake James just north of the Marion siding on the Blue Ridge Sub. The distinctive outline of Shortoff Mountain is in the distance.
The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, crosses the Toe River and passes the elderly Clinchfield signal at NE Toe River.
The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, pushes the 92 loads up the gentle but lengthy grade of the Blue Ridge Sub.
An empty potash train weaves through the curvature at the north end of Green Mountain on the Blue Ridge Sub.
L&C train 14 switches the Circle S facility as their first stop of the day. In the distance, a crew begins their day on cleanup of a recent derailment.
L&C train number 14 runs east by the local landmark restaurant, the Wagon Wheel, famous for fried squash. This is near several former Springs Industries textile mills, whose office staffs and ven... (more)
A late-running P86 approaches the Amtrak station in Spartanburg en route to a chemical plant in nearby White Stone.
The westbound Southwest Chief has just met its counterpart and hits the west siding switch at Glorieta and begins the descent of the pass toward Apache Canyon.
It was a snowy morning on Raton Pass as the Southwest Chief encountered showers from Starkville, CO to just west of Raton. Here, No. 3 cruises into the double track and prepares for the station s... (more)
N&W 620 rests at the NCTM.
The Southwest Chief crests Glorieta Pass at the former station, now the post office.
The Southwest Chief descends the west slope of Raton Pass at East Keota. The fog lifted just moments before the train popped into view.
An empty BNSF ballast train has just met the Southwest Chief at the summit of Raton Pass and cruises eastbound toward Trinidad.