Full cab view of A class 1218

Looks like lots of work going on in the roundhouse, both steam and diesel, at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC

NCTM engineer brings his train to a stop before backing up to the Barber station to let off the 15 or so passengers.

As part of the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln the N.C. Transportation Museum hosted the Lincoln Funeral train and over 200 Civil War reenactors.

Now this is a "Steam Special"

611's last trip up Saluda Mountain.

I thought for sure that when I took this photo early on the morning of December 7, 1994 the this would be the last sunrise 611 would see with a fire in her belly. I still hope I was wrong. http://... (more)

The spacer box car is empty all but a MU cable to connect the locos. It is actually used to spread the weight out over the Buffalo Creek bridge on the other end of the line that is much smaller th... (more)

All the Selma school kids came out to see the new Amtrak test train.

A Nucor steel crane unloads a car load of scrap metal for reprocessing.

The first Bush's campaign train passes through Lowell, NC.

Classic Southern Hot Shot pig train #219 speeds south through Lowell, NC