After a twelve-year absense, steam is back in the Smokies! Great Smoky Mountains Railroad consolidation #1702 made its first test run along the mainline on Friday, July 22 (7/22-coincidentally the... (more)
The Caldwell County Railroad local heads South across the Catawba River bridge back to Hickory, NC. The GP16 is still in Family Lines paint
The first signs of spring frame NW J 611 leading NS 8099 and NCTM 6133 across Catawba River Bridge carrying passengers west to Asheville from Spencer, NC.
NS 957 The Blue Ridge Special starts up the hill and to the loops at Dendron. And I got to say I was very happy with this spot because you could hear him working. And that was a cool thing to see.... (more)
A pair of NS B32-8s, both now retired and being cut up for scrap, lead a local across Highway 70, near Barber Junction
NS 756 crosses US 220 in the setting sun light of a very warm and windy Winters day on March 3rd, 2016. Due to the evening sun the small dip where the road sits is covered by the shadows of trees... (more)
The A&W heads into Sanford for a morning of switching. The A&W is an "original" shortline being chartered in the late 1890s to run about 25 miles from Sanford to Lillington NC. In the mo... (more)
One of the Asheville District locals rolls west in the afternoon over Third Creek on a small trestle preparing to meet its eastbound counterpart P60,
The NS 1069 Virginian leads the 36Q north on the Danville District just after sunrise.
On a cold and dreary Winter afternoon, NS 741 rolls across Mill Creek, beginning her assault on the famous Southern Loops.
Eastbound BRS train W44 slowly creeps its way down the W-Line as it crosses I-40 in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
RNCX 1859 "City of High Point" leads Amtrak 75 west over the recently restored steel truss bridge in Burlington.
The southbound deadhead return trip of the 73rd Santa Train breaks the silence at Relief on this cold November night. This scene has played out year after year on this same night, but will 2015 b... (more)
NS train 945 rolls across I-40 in Conover, NC. Led by a chopped ex-Southern SD40-2, still wearing her Southern horns.
