For those of you who have heard about this incident and have been wondering, the following is an official statement from the railroad: "An automobile/train collision occurred on the New Hope V... (more)

"Be Sure With Pure" ...This sign adjacent to a long defunct gas station watches over the morning passage of Carolina Coastal's bi-weekly Wilson-Chocowinity turn. Hopefully once the economy picks u... (more)

What I believe to be a Heron, which was fishing in a nearby swampy drainage ditch, takes flight as the CLNA Wilson switcher trundles along the overgrown right of way with 10 cars for the NS interc... (more)

Man & Machine...it's all about love.

This Geep-slug pair is leading 38 cars plus a dead-in-tow AC44 around the west leg of the Parmele (pronounced parm-u-lee) wye onto the Tarboro Sub. Though Class I, everything east of the A-Line in... (more)

The latest and greatest power to arrive at the CLNA is this hard-to-miss ex-Mississippi Export (exx-SBD) Geep. She's taken over the Wilson Switcher job and is seen here kicking cars in their small... (more)

After pushing a hot freight over the mountain, a beefy Wild Mary helper turns around to be ready for another shove...actually former LS&I 2-8-0 734 traverses the wye in the valley below the Ridgel... (more)

With their longs lines of stored locomotives, the Class I's may be taking the most visible hit due to the current economic disaster, but shortlines have been anything but spared. When the CLNA to... (more)

Though 98 stole the show on Pufferbelly Day - first with her 100th birthday celebration, then by leading the doubleheaded trips and handling a private charter - that morning allowed a comparison w... (more)

1943-built #399 pulls out of the former Norfolk Southern (old NS) yard in Bonsal with a freshly painted Aberdeen & Rockfish caboose past the egg shack, so-called because a local farmer sells eggs ... (more)

CN 89 works her way up the easy grade toward the stop at Groff's Grove.

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)

Two 1963-built former stalwarts of the Pennsy: E-44 #4465 was built by GE and was donated to the museum in 1991. GP30 #2233 was of course built by GM-EMD and was donated to the museum in 1998. It ... (more)

Most of the W&W's many bridges over the Red Clay Creek are smaller structures than this through truss bridge 98 is crossing as she arrives in Ashland with a wedding charter. Her engineer leans out... (more)