A little night activity at the Southern Rwy. Spencer roundhouse. GP30 2601 looks on as FP7 6133 is put away for the evening.

On a beautiful spring day, the ARC crew goes about their duties switching a concrete plant.

NS 134 barrels eastward through the confines of downtown Statesville at the interchange with the Alexander RR.

In a departure from some of the previous rural scenes of the quaint short line, known to locals as the "June Bug Line," ARC 6 pulls a cut of boxcars out of a warehouse district in west Statesville... (more)

ARC 6 tackles yet another short, steep hill on this twisting undulating line. Notice that the unit is not MU equipped. While much of the ARC's traffic originates near the NS interchange in State... (more)

Every morning, five days a week, the ARC crew unlocks this rusty old pad lock, which serves as the sole ARC yard security in Taylorsville, fires up an old switcher such as Alco #6, and rolls off t... (more)

The ARC was formed in 1946 to take over about 20 miles of a SOU branch from Statesville to Taylorsville, and not much has changed since as evidenced by this scene: ARC 6, with one of its eyes put ... (more)

And the April 2008 Darwin Award goes to...the guy in the black S10. For those wondering, the loco was moving, if only at roughly 10 MPH. The pickup, however, barely cleared since the driver had a... (more)

ARC 6 begins her day running light southbound out of Taylorsville through front and back yards in great morning light. The little Alco was built in 1953 and came to the ARC in 1976. Her 6-cylinde... (more)

Reflecting off the unused Kannawha Canal, a loaded phosphate train rolls off the Bellwood Sub nearing Fulton Yard as it passes a mini waterfall created from canal run off.

Sitting cold inside the roundhouse awaiting its time to be returned to steam is Graham County 1925 a 70-ton model Shay built in 1925. Its trio of 12x15 inch cylinders can churn out 30,350 lbs. of ... (more)

The SCRM fire protection crew follow Flagg Coal 75 out the short line with a water pump car in tow. Click HERE to see what happen... (more)

The NHVR’s little Vulcan leads Flagg Coal 75 out of Bonsal as the Appex FD keeps an eye out for fires set by coal-burning 75. A couple of weeks earlier, 75 kept the Fairfield Co. FD quite busy ... (more)

After uncoupling from its train, the power for NS 750 scampers past the steep connection to the old Piedmont & Northern which climbs out of the north end of the Gastonia trench. The power will ru... (more)

With a classic NS high nose Geep, a short geometry train sprints out of the Gastonia "trench." In the words of 903's conductor to the crew of P43 waiting just ahead, "Don't blink or you'll miss us... (more)