Size comparison: Think GE centercabs are small? 65 ton GE #399 practically dwarfs 42 ton saddletank 17 as she brings her train back into the NHVR yard. Notice how the caboose towers over 17 too. H... (more)

If you're in the Raleigh-Durham area and want to run an engine, you're in luck. The NHVR's rent-a-loco program can put you behind the throttle of steam ($250) or diesel ($125) for an 8 mile run. H... (more)

One of several half century old centercabs that provide the diesel power for the NHVR. 399 was built for the US Navy in 1943. The NHVR acquired its four mile stretch of line from the Southern in ... (more)

This oddball 1947 BLH switcher has seen better days as she waits for some TLC on the outskirts of the NHVR yard. The diamond once allowed the former SOU tracks that the NHVR operates on to cross t... (more)

Beggars can't be choosers! While she may be tiny, NHVR 17 is the only operating standard gauge steam loco in the Carolinas these days. In a busy work day at Bonsal, 17 undergoes a 245 psi. hydro t... (more)

Their tools set on the table to the right, the crew at the New Hope Valley preps #17 for next weekends train rides

The NHVR’s little Vulcan leads Flagg Coal 75 out of Bonsal as the Appex FD keeps an eye out for fires set by coal-burning 75. A couple of weeks earlier, 75 kept the Fairfield Co. FD quite busy ... (more)

End of the line, literally. A Whitcomb design, this engine was built by the resulting merger of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Lima and Hamilton Crane companies. This engine operated at New ... (more)

Apparently there's more than one way to skin a cat. I've seen engines re-coaled with wheelbarrows, conveyers, and front end loaders, but this is a first. Fortunately for the crew, 75 doesn't bur... (more)

A brakeman uses hand signals to direct the engineer in a switching move, a job at which 75 should feel much more at home than pulling passengers.

The smoky little Whitcomb arrives back in Bonsal, but this busy day for the all volunteer crew is not yet over until they make one last run to New Hill and return.

The twin Vulcans arrive at Bonsal in the late afternoon.

The fire train awaiting the next run beside the chapter's GMC high-railer.

A bit of switching with this duo at the Bonsal yard.

The twins head back to Bonsal in the afternoon. Though built 11 years apart, these 40 ton Vulcan saddle tanks have nearly identical specs: 38 inch drivers, 14x22 inch cylinders, and 18,000 lbs. o... (more)