161 leads a late running Train #20, The Crescent, north near Pelham NC. 161 is painted in the Phase 1 50th anniversary paint scheme.

Morning Run. The Carolinian heads north on the Southern main through Landis.

Amtrak 80 enters Raleigh City limits and passes over I-40 in an early fall morning.

Amtrak 75 passes over I-40 between Raleigh and Cary.

The Silver Star sails through Apex in the early morning.

Amtrak 76 rounds the S curves in Morrisville with a former GO Transit F59PH leading in the late afternoon.

The Star flashes past a pile of ties leftover from CSX Right of Way works ongoing on the A line.

Amtrak 92 departs Cary with Operation Lifesaver-lettered 203 leading.

Amtrak 80 rounds the curve at Hillsborough on their way up the NC Line.

Amtrak 80 departs Kannapolis station 16 minutes late, with the phase 2 heritage unit on point.

Piedmont service for Raleigh departs from Charlotte's circa 1962 former Southern Railway station.

Running almost an hour late, the midday "Piedmont" service from Raleigh slows for its station stop in Kannapolis, nearing its end point of Charlotte.

77 departs Durham and heads west with one of the two RNCX F59PHIs leading.

Amtrak 75 heads over one of the many grade separations on the NC Line early into their trip out of Raleigh.