Some of the original cars. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1702 leading the Nantahala Gorge Excursion across Fontana Lake
A lonely survivor prepares for a comeback. The F40 was the perfect passenger train workhorse, and for years these were a staple on the local jaunts as well as heading up notable long haul journe... (more)
Not as well known as Pidcock or other shortline empires, the Evans family possessed a prosperous little stable in the Tarheel State. Here one of their 70-tonner's Cooper-Bessemer engines produces... (more)
Modified for hump service at Rice Yard in Waycross these "H-15s" as the railroad called them were in at least one case re-engined with old 16-567BC engines. After SBD came along they sh... (more)
Formerly of the L&N this unit is now actually CSX but does not bear that logo so I prefer Seaboard. It appears to be sitting in the "field" where units await assignment after being serv... (more)
It was unusual, I think, to find a large number of coal hoppers on this train but today the faded Uceta rebuilds have quite a string on this departing WB train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my ... (more)
On the longest continuously straight track in America (horizontally that it is) an EB freight roars by the former Seaboard station, one of the nicest little ex-SAL brick stations anywhere. I am h... (more)
Southern Railway GP30 2549 and GP38-2 5153 are idling at the Charlotte diesel servicing facility on a hot August day. 2549 has somehow lost it's SR nose herald.
Former Southern Railway 2867 leads a northbound freight at Kings Mountain North Carolina.
A late running Carolinian arrives at Raleigh Union Station on a steamy summer evening.
"Town of Cary" 1871 arrives in its namesake on the point of the mid afternoon Piedmont to Charlotte.
A single GE running Southern style leads the P46 local from Raleigh to Durham in the early evening.
Amtrak's east/northbound Carolinian departs Cary with Heritage Unit 164 on the point.
RF01 heads north to Raleigh with an ex-CR GP38 leading two more four axles.
