Coastal Carolina's Plymouth Switcher crosses the Palmico River Trestle as it begins its run back toward Plymouth on a clear May morning.

A hodgepodge lashup of Carolina Coastal EMD's lug a empty Sulfur train uphill through Knightdale on there way to Raleigh.

The daily Plymouth to Chocowinity turn has almost reached its destination after emerging from the pine forests of the Coastal Plain to cross the Pamlico River on the old-NS mainline.

After dropping off one car for the Southern States elevator, the CLNA Wilson to Chocowinity turn gets under way with 17 cars. Crews from a work train would soon resume trying to rerail one of the ... (more)

Waters of the Pamlico River lap against the shore, sea gulls screech in the air, the smell of loaded wood chip hoppers is carried along by the breeze, and the old trestle across the river groans i... (more)

An overview of the Chocowinity Yard used jointly by NS & CLNA looking north as the CLNA Plymouth to Choco turn switches the south end with their former Mississippi Export Geep. This is all trackag... (more)

While most of their running is through the fields and forests of Eastern NC, there are a few locations - such as the crossing of the Pamlico River in Washington - that really put the "coast" in Ca... (more)

A hodgepodge of GPs switches and moves cars in the joint Norfolk Southern/Carolina Coastal yard in Chocowinity, NC. The yellow GP40 will be taking the empties back to Pinetown, while the Red GP 9... (more)

Running LHF, CLNA 95 heads east across a tributary of the Pamlico River returning to Plymouth from Chocowinity with a cut of empty log cars headed for loading. "Old Yeller" is pretty hard to miss ... (more)

After arriving with cars from Plymouth, 95 and her crew switch the east end of the CLNA's Chocowinity yard and will wait for over an hour for the arrival of the eastbound job from Wilson before ma... (more)

After arriving from Plymouth, CLNA 95 left her train on the main to couple onto the headend of the train off the Bellhaven branch which was lead by CLNA GP10 8311. After both trains are put togeth... (more)

You just can't help but take a picture at a place called Walla Watta. The rarely photographed Carolina Coastal Pinetown Switcher rolls due south through the rural farmland of Eastern NC headed for... (more)

"Be Sure With Pure" ...This sign adjacent to a long defunct gas station watches over the morning passage of Carolina Coastal's bi-weekly Wilson-Chocowinity turn. Hopefully once the economy picks u... (more)

What I believe to be a Heron, which was fishing in a nearby swampy drainage ditch, takes flight as the CLNA Wilson switcher trundles along the overgrown right of way with 10 cars for the NS interc... (more)

The latest and greatest power to arrive at the CLNA is this hard-to-miss ex-Mississippi Export (exx-SBD) Geep. She's taken over the Wilson Switcher job and is seen here kicking cars in their small... (more)