N&W 611 is being serviced in preparation for a northbound run out of Salisbury NC. It was rare to see the engine with a nice patina of road grime like this. It gives it the appearance of an older ... (more)

A scene that is on borrowed time. A daily routine of BLU T31 pulling 'the bottom' which is the track of outbound cars from the paper mill in Canton, NC is coming to a close due to the mill announc... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern T59 winds down Balsam Mountain approaching the 40 Milepost on the T Line headed for Sylva to interchange a locomotive with the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.

Yadkin Valley Railroad train YV2 departs Rural Hall with a big train for interchange with NS in Winston-Salem, led by a trio of former CSX/Conrail SD60M's.

Somehow my usual expert labelling went awry, and I'm too lazy to dig thru all those slides but offhand I'd guess this is R460, the joint CSX/NS train to Winston Salem running ostensibly as a WSSB ... (more)

For me the favorite EMD butthead is this little 600 HP beast and the Evans-era in NC provided a nice paint job on this former Union Railroad unit. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

350 arrives in Selma from Greensboro with three GEs for power.

CSX Pinoca yard job Y103 working Colonial Materials

8318 has just emerged from Second Washburn Tunnel on the southbound run down the former Clinchfield RR Loops. 8318 was former L&N SD40 1242.

8204, still in Seaboard System livery, leads an empty hopper train north at Marion North Carolina on the former Clinchfield RR. 8204 was former L&N 3576.

A Selma-bound NS 6W4 ethanol train heads into Raleigh with two UP units on the point.

Raleigh & Fayetteville RF01 trundles over the diamond with the NS NC Line and CSX Aberdeen Sub at Boylan, as North Carolina Central Prison looms in the background.

After holding for a Piedmont train, RF01 heads across the diamond at Boylan enroute to Glenwood Yard.

N&W 1218 is northbound at Grover NC.

Amtrak's westbound Carolinian arrives in Raleigh in the late afternoon.