The winter sun is setting on the Thermal Belt Railway's service in Forest City on New Year's Eve, 2008. The engine is on the former Southern Railway SB line, acquired by Rutherford County from NS... (more)
The Belton job has just made interchange with the Greenville and Western and rumbles southward to work a customer on the former Southern Railway/Columbia and Greenville line.
The Pickens Anderson approaches Belton.
The Pickens Anderson job heads east with 6 cars for the Greenville and Western, passing a quarry about half way through its route.
The Southern heritage unit leads 119 across the South Carolina/Georgia state line and the Tugaloo River at the headwaters of Lake Hartwell.
Carolina Piedmont moves east with a special move of 2 turbines from the GE plant in Greenville.
NS 123 rolls out of Asheville Yard at Biltmore. The train is switching from the yard lead and origin of the W-line (with MP 0 at the crossing) to the S-line to head to Linwood.
NS 123 rolls out of Asheville Yard at Biltmore. The former station is in the foreground. The train is switching from the yard lead and origin of the W-line (with MP 0 at the crossing) to the S-l... (more)
203 crosses the Tugaloo River and the headwaters of Lake Hartwell as it enters Georgia.
A very late 135 makes an unusual daylight appearance on the loops. Here, the train rumbles by the waypoint Graphite as the rear is visible wrapped around the horseshoe curve at High Fill.
A southbound coal train bound for South Carolina pops out of Vance Tunnel at Altapass, NC as the first rays of sun pop over the Blue Ridge.
A northbound empty hopper train heads across the Toe River at the north end of the Toe River siding, still home to a set of Clinchfield signals.
NS 123 winds around Andrews Geyser at Dendron, NC. The mid-train DPU's had barely disappeared on the high fill when the lead units appeared below.
NS 212 holds on main 1 with the Interstate heritage unit while southbound 213 zips by on main 2 at Cramerton, NC.