After spending several hours switching at River Terminal and 30 minutes waiting on a track inspector at the CSX A-line crossing, 300 and 205 finally head west toward Raeford with 2 cars. Here the... (more)

This is: A) Howard Dean's version of the MX missile. B) The monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. C) Office car for the author of the "Cold Shops" policy. D) a 21st Century caboose. Ans. D... (more)

Charleston-Atlanta 237 pulls into Greenville to do their work. The remnants of Greenville's textile past are visible at Poe Mill. The remnants of a ramp and slab have been made into a skate park... (more)

Carolina Piedmont made a Saturday run from Laurens to Greenville to deliver a turbine to the GE plant. On the return, they picked up 2 empty centerbeams and are treading lightly by the pumpkin pa... (more)

U40 starts to loading process at Lone Mountain Processing, deep in southwest Virginia at the end of the Southern Railway's branches emanating from Andover.

Southbound Charleston-Atlanta intermodal 237 has only the loads shown in the photo with several thousand feet of empties as they throttle up to track speed leaving Greenville and cross the Saluda ... (more)

Sandersville cruises through downtown Tennille running light back to the shop.

The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer makes two crossings of the Colorado River and passes CP West Bond.

The manned helpers on train 750, coal loads for Duke Power's Allen Steam Station near Charlotte, ease over the crest of the grade in downtown Saluda. The grade was taken out of service in Decembe... (more)

A&R 300, 1962 model one-owner, and trailing GP7 #205, bought new by A&R in 1951, pull 2 cars westbound at Dundarrach. 3 miles to go to tie-up at Farm Supply in Raeford. Times are changing for th... (more)

A thunderstorm passes to the south of Collier Yard on CSX's North End Sub (former ACL).

The eastbound A&R train is speeding toward Fayetteville as it passes through farm country between Raeford and Dundurrach. Thanks to Scott R. for keeping us on the road for this pacing shot!!

Ethanol loads for Charlotte pass the south end of the Toe River siding and enter Vance Tunnel at Altapass, NC, with the Clinchfield-era signal protecting their move.

P001-23 heads by the Union Church at the north end of Dante Yard. This spot was a favorite for the Santa Train and had attracted much of the chase team this day, so I went high with Airwolf to ca... (more)

Northbound Q692 ascends the Clinchfield's loops at Rocky. The train is leaving the Second Rocky tunnel and about to enter First Rocky. The train extends past the siding in the distance.