From her perch on the walkway's railing, my girlfriend, Susan, waves at the crew as a loaded coal train passes a swinging foot bridge over the Toe River. Little did she know the final day of our f... (more)

With bell clanging and high pitched Southern 3 chime letting the world know that Southern steam has returned to the rails, this 1890 built loco makes her brief debut. As would be expected with suc... (more)

For quite a while, I’ve been wanting to photograph what little remains of the East Carolina Railway. It was a true shortline from the start, in business from 1898-1965, that ran about 35 miles f... (more)

There can't be too many places on earth where you can see glaciers from the comfort of your passenger car. The passengers on this southbound Coastal Classic scramble to get their photos of the Bar... (more)

The dual gauge trackage creates an interesting array of rails. (Note, photo was taken from a public crossing while the train was stopped.)

Looking much better than her last photo op for RP (seen here: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97281), ARC #3 sits in the parking lot of a lumber yard in Statesville. The "mainline" of... (more)

Perhaps the strangest sight I've ever seen while railfanning, seemingly thousands of seagulls line the rails of the mile long Neuse River bridge and take to the air as a local from Chocowinity cre... (more)

Alongside the mainline through the Toe River gorge, we came across this little speeder lettered for the Toe River RR on an abandoned spur adjacent to a collapsed through truss bridge. Anyone know... (more)

There are likely not too many US steam locos that have been active for 27 years and have never been captured for RP, this is an exception. #9 was built for the US Navy by Porter as a tank engine ... (more)

It's after sunset the night of one of the biggest snows in recent memory in Rocky Mount NC, and frozen switches are wreaking havoc on CSX. A late running P089, after stopping just north of town fo... (more)

Each weekday morning the ARC days starts with pulling one of the line's 4 spotless SW1500's from the engine house. The shop once held the line's small fleet of ALCO switchers painted in the bright... (more)

After coming to a stop, 8311 coughs up a lung getting across the CSX (former ACL) diamonds downtown Greenville. With just one car in tow, today's run back to Wilson will be a short one for the cre... (more)

45157 rolls west towards the coast though the remote highlands passing this frequently photographed church.

Midday has been busy on the CLNA in Farmville. After the work train arrived from Wilson at 1100, met the road train, and took care of a Railroad: Carolina Coastal Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD-M
Location: Farmville, North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: CLNA 815
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 20, 2010

A lone tractor pulls up to the crossing in the tiny village of Meadowview as a WB autorack train blasts through en-route to Bristol. Merry Christmas!