SR 2601 leads a daily passenger train at NCTM

Norfolk Southern OAR train poses for photos by a Norfolk & Western CPL signal.

NS 911 and 5642 pause for a few minutes along the thoroughfare while the excursion train loads ahead at Barber Junction depot during North Carolina Transportation Museum's annual Firetruck Festiva... (more)

NS 5642 takes a spin on the turntable as 911 looks on

Southern 6900 looks on as NS 911 is sitting at the roundhouse

Norfolk Southern's Operation Awareness and Response train is spread around the turntable tracks at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, in advance of the museum's annual Fire T... (more)

GP30 #2601 sits on a staged freight train at the annual Train & Truck show in Spencer, NC.

Norfolk Southern #1067, the Reading heritage unit, is seen here on the red carpet at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 2012 as us photogs got our shots.

GP30 #2601 heads a staged freight train as FP7A #6133 shoves back with the museum train in Spencer, NC.

Visitors at the NC Transportation Museum pause to marvel at the 6133 rounds a curve heading back to Barber Junction.

Southern Crescent preparring to stop at Barber Junction

Southern Crescent passes a local freight led by GP30 2601

Norfolk Southern (NS) 8103, a General ElectricES44AC locomotive, the Norfolk & Western heritage unit. Norfolk Western, NS 8103,

Eleven years later, I am still coming across files I had not touched yet of the heritage event in Spencer.

Aside from the new units painted in Heritage paint schemes, there were also some actual heritage units in Spencer, North Carolina back in July 2012. All three locomotives were built in the 1950s. ... (more)