Former Duke Power GE 25 Ton diesel is seen on the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.
It's a warm, early Spring day in 1956, and the shop switcher is busy bringing completed cars out of the Budd plant outside Philadelphia. The latest cars being completed for the Pennsylvania Railro... (more)
At the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, Duke Power GE 25 ton switcher #5951 is seen moving auxiliary water tender for Norfolk and Western J #611 on the turntable.
NS M34, an extra section 134, eases by Five Row and prepares to enter Linwood Yard. The crew would make it into the yard just in time before "lawing out."
Ex N&W GP9 No. 620 rests beside the Barber, NC depot, waiting for another day to arrive for more passengers. 620 is one of only a few remaining locomotives that wore every paint scheme N&W ever ha... (more)
In notch 8 and dumping sand, P61 throbs up the hill with another heavy train in tow. P61 often runs with 80 plud cars during the weekdays, most of them being loads bound for industries west of Sal... (more)
A Dash 9 in relatively fresh paint leads P99 south.
After waiting all morning at the north end of Linwood for NS 8098 to lead a train north, the unit finally left the yard in the trail on 119.
NS 162 glides down the hill at Five Row and will take a signal into their terminus at CP "Duke."
P61 crawls up the hill in run 8 with a long, heavy train in tow.
National Train Day
NS P61 attacks the hill with a 3-pack of General Motors products and 85 cars in tow- most of them loads. Three 645s screamin' to high heaven sure ain't a bad way to start a Monday.
