Headed for Fayetteville, the daily train has just topped the stiff grade south of Aberdeen and is drifting down one of the the many humps between here and the destination. I loved the little side... (more)

This trip was one of very few ever run on the A&R. An NRHS chapter well west of here (I don't remember which.) brought in three very cobbled-up old passenger cars and did quite well in ticket sal... (more)

After switching the yard in the background, Aberdeen and Rockfish No. 400 pulls across the road to pull cars from Valley Protiens.

With the help of GP38 no. 400, GP18 No. 300 handles a cut of cars from the River Terminal.

A blast of the horn carries for miles across the sandhills of North Carolina, but the sound of the locomotive bell - that means you're close. The hurried clang-clang-clang, rising in pitch as it a... (more)

This locomotive has seen a whole lot of service since it was built for the Santa Fe in 1951. Here it's coupled up nose-to-nose with one of the A&R's GP38s, awaiting some TLC after coming up from t... (more)

I had just moved from CA back east was a thrilled to be only 4 hours from the farm. The days were crisp and the reddish sun angle enriched the colors as this daily freight prepared to depart for ... (more)

The sound of the horn on A&R GP9 #205 echoing out over the Sandhills has been part of southeastern North Carolina for over 50 years.

This skilled hand has worked the same EMD control stand for almost 30 years.

Most of the work on A&R is in Fayetteville although the HQ is in Aberdeen. Here the local is just coming up from the CSX interchange.