Blue Ridge Southern's attractive herald on the nose of SD40-2 4205 fits in nicely with its background as Canton-Asheville turn T31 makes the eastbound journey to "the city up in the clouds.&q... (more)

On a bright and sunny March morning, Blue Ridge Southern T31's crew is pulling 11 cars from the Evergreen paper mill that they will take to Asheville after a brake test and attaching an EOT. The s... (more)

Working west back to Canton, a quartet of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s rumble past the Crown Plaza golf course and the classic non-automatic approach signal.

After pulling some woodchip hoppers from the bottom, Blue Ridge Southern T31 begins cycling back through Canton Yard to pull up the yard office before departing for Asheville, North Carolina and N... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern train T31 hurries towards Asheville on a bright winter morning as the beautiful hills of western North Carolina stand in the distance.

Weaving through the gorgeous North Carolina countryside, former UP, WAMX 4205 leads Blue Ridge Southern T31 eastbound through Candler, North Carolina bound for Asheville with Engineer Cain behind ... (more)

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)

T59 pushes through the weeds and brush just outside of Sylva.

With class(y) lights lit green, 3943 leads T59 back east to Sylva.

BLU T31 climbs the grade from Murphy Junction s it passes the former Southern Railway "Non-Automatic Approach Block" signal on its trip back toward Canton.

After bringing in several sets of loads from the yard in Asheville, BLU T31 starts to sort out the coal, wood chip, and tank cars for their customers in the yard in Canton. Once the loads of coal ... (more)

Four Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s lead BLU T31 through the dip at Enka on their way to Asheville

The leftovers from winter storm Jonas still cover the ground near Coburn, NC as the daily Canton-Asheville turn (T31) cruises WB on a beautiful January afternoon.

Veteran Blue Ridge Southern Engineer Dennis Cain brings eastbound T31 into the dip at "Vulcan" 7 Miles from Murphy Junction on the Murphy Branch.