Great Smoky Mountains GP38-3, disguised as a GP35, makes a striking blue appearance trailing behind BLU's much larger GP39-2s.

T59 shoves a cut of box cars into the warehouse of Evergreen Packaging's Waynesville plant with a fresh bed of January snow blanketing the yard.

1702 leads one of the last Tuck Trains for the year.

GSMR 1751 runs light to Dillsboro following directly behind the day's Tuck Train. The Tuck Train is much longer than usual at 20 cars and will need 1751 to get back to Bryson City.

Two trains and two railroads meet for a hand-off of three UNLOADED flat cars. If it seems like we've been here before, we have. Three days after Blue Ridge Southern dropped off loads of rail to th... (more)

From earlier this year, Blue Ridge Southern return through Sylva after dropping off three flat cars loaded with rail for Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. I found this image while looking for a few ... (more)

Having just completed the first half of their round trip from Spencer to Asheville, NW 611 and the NS Southern Heritage unit turns the train on the wye. It's likely that this was the last passenge... (more)

GSMR 1751 past the farms of Thomas Valley. A female passenger has booked the day's locomotive cab ride.

T59 heads east a few miles from it's destination. Normally the train would not run on a Tuesday and normally it would stop in Sylva, but today the train ran on rarely used trackage to Dillsboro to... (more)

GSMR 711 and 777, both of which as far as I know are GP7's in GP9 frames run around the days Tuck Train.

A CSX Coal train rolls under the pedestrian bridge at Pinebridge in Spruce Pine.

T59 drops a sizeable cut of boxcars into the siding at Hazelwood before heading west with a tank train for Sylva. Maintenance on the railroad's fleet of GP39-2s has left the crew running long hood... (more)

T59, with white "extra" class light lit, sits at Balsam while the conductor sets the retainers. The downgrade for the next several miles east is very steep, upwards of 5%. This Tuesday run consist... (more)

After driving from Sylva to Waynesville only to realize that T59 had been in Sylva the whole time, we managed to catch them a few places.

A late afternoon test run provided for some rare light on this end of the line.