You just can't help but take a picture at a place called Walla Watta. The rarely photographed Carolina Coastal Pinetown Switcher rolls due south through the rural farmland of Eastern NC headed for... (more)

It must have been my lucky day to catch the illusive CLNA crossing the span over the Pamlico River in pretty downtown Washington with a GP30 on the point. This was once part of the old NS line fro... (more)

You never know what you're going to get with the CLNA. Here a rough looking blue bonnet rolls through the back woods of eastern NC in the last rays of light with 18 cars for Plymouth. The 23 is ex... (more)

Rolling out of the sunset through rural eastern NC, a CLNA local rumbles along behind one of my favorite units, a GP30. The train is returning north to Plymouth with about 18 cars from Chocowinity... (more)

"Be Sure With Pure" ...This sign adjacent to a long defunct gas station watches over the morning passage of Carolina Coastal's bi-weekly Wilson-Chocowinity turn. Hopefully once the economy picks u... (more)

What I believe to be a Heron, which was fishing in a nearby swampy drainage ditch, takes flight as the CLNA Wilson switcher trundles along the overgrown right of way with 10 cars for the NS interc... (more)

The latest and greatest power to arrive at the CLNA is this hard-to-miss ex-Mississippi Export (exx-SBD) Geep. She's taken over the Wilson Switcher job and is seen here kicking cars in their small... (more)

With their longs lines of stored locomotives, the Class I's may be taking the most visible hit due to the current economic disaster, but shortlines have been anything but spared. When the CLNA to... (more)

A CLNA freight returns east to Wilson through the hamlet of Sims in the late afternoon. 1721, still looking sharp in the paint of her former owner, was built as a GP18 for the SAL in 1960.

After coming to a stop, 8311 coughs up a lung getting across the CSX (former ACL) diamonds downtown Greenville. With just one car in tow, today's run back to Wilson will be a short one for the cre... (more)

The sad things that medical school does to one's free time: I live directly by the tracks of the CLNA and this is my first shot taken from where else but my parking lot. This is a fairly typical c... (more)

What's wrong with this scene? (Note the position of the crossing gate arms.) They activated as the train approached but deactivated just as the train came into view. These two units are eastbound ... (more)

Here's an oddball new to RP. CLNA 815, a long way from her previous home on the DM&IR, makes a run around move before returning east to Wilson.

Coming home from the Outer Banks on a Monday morning, we found this Carolina Coastal train finishing work at the end of the line in Plymouth.

Carolina Coastal Railway now operates former NS trackage from Raleigh to Plymouth, NC. The Pinetown Switcher crosses a tributary of the Pamlico River on its way to the NS interchange at Chocowini... (more)