The Blue Ridge Southern T31 job to Asheville has departed Canton and rolls across a massive trestle just outside town. The quartet of EMD's power the train over former Southern Railway trackage.
The Blue Ridge Southern crews put together the day's T31 at the yard in Canton, North Carolina. A quartet of EMD SD40 variants are the power for today's train to Asheville.
T31 crosses High Bridge near Canton, NC on it's return trip from Asheville.
Blue Ridge Southern train T31 has just departed Canton, North Carolina as it navigates the mountainous terrain towards Asheville where they will interchange with NS. Leading the train is WAMX #420... (more)
Blue Ridge Southern train T31, the daily Canton-Asheville run with traffic for NS, crosses the Pigeon River as it builds its train in Canton.
BLU T31 crosses the Hominy Creek bridge, headed up the steep grade into Canton with their return trip from interchange with NS in Asheville.
Blue Ridge Southern T31 leaves Canton bound for Asheville with the daily turn.
With clearing skies, Blue Ridge Southern's T31 crosses over North Hominy Creek just outside of Canton, NC on the ex. Southern Murphy Branch. The veteran lash-up was howling as they brought the 42 ... (more)
T31 is about to dig for the climb up into Canton. Leading the pack is 4205 sporting a one of a kind nose logo.
Coming back into Canton and lugging up the grade T31 passes the famous house and trestle.
Roaring back through town and just cresting the grade. T31 rolls by a bystander taking a video. I bet it was a good one with the train in notch 8 here.
After they finished working Evergreen Packaging T31 reverses back to change tracks and get ready to head to Asheville.
Blue Ridge Southern train T31 is getting their day started. Here they are pulling across the Pigeon River starting to building their train.
T31 is arriving back to Canton. They are struggling up the 3.3% grade with a loaded train for Canton.
