UP #8830 leads a trio of UP EMD's out of the 260' Burgin tunnel on the famous Southern Railway's Old Fort Loops in western North Carolina.
Deep into almost eight inches of snow, and dead in the water with no crew call for Linwood's junk manifest NS 162 (Sheffield, AL- Linwood,NC) wait in idle with the Nickle Plate motor second out on... (more)
The Penn Central Heritage unit leads eastbound 162 across the French Broad River bridge and into Asheville on its first daylight run across the S-Line to Linwood.
Penn Central invades North Carolina! NS #1073 sweeps around the upper loop of High Fill on the famous Southern Railway loops in western NC with train 162 in tow for Linwood, some 115 miles to t... (more)
NS 6944 teams up with a TFM SD70M and a KCS SD70ACe to bring train 162 East through Claremont and a beautiful, but very cold Winter morning.
A trio of Union Pacific power leads eastbound 162 past the classic Southern Railway station at Old Fort, NC on this cold January night.
NS 162 arrives into Salisbury at the end of its Asheville District run with a colorful assortment of power. The train will not enter the Piedmont main anytime soon, as traffic and maintenance work... (more)
162 slowly crawls through the control point at "Russell" as ut arrives into Asheville.
162 drops down the Old Fort loops just below Dendron with two Canadian cowl units leading on this beautiful first day of December.
Christmas came early to railfans in western North Carolina on the first day of December. Two Canadian cowl body units lead an eastbound manifest train around the sweeping curve at High Fill in th... (more)
In beautiful afternoon sunlight 162 arrives from Sheffield, AL (via Knoxville) with two KCS units for power.
162 completes its run down the grade from Ridgecrest as it sweeps into Old Fort, NC to meet WB 165.
NS 163 (Spencer,NC-Sheffield,AL) get the signal from CSX to proceed onto the joint line to the CSX Chattanooga Sub from the NS AGS North-End. You would have thought you was on some random UP Sub i... (more)
BNSF power leads 134 east from Old Fort as the Black Mountains loom in the distance on this fall morning.
A beautiful late afternoon greets eastbound 162 as it passes through the sweeping curve on the east end of Del Rio, TN in late afternoon light.