"Streamliners At Spencer" mainline excursion....I believe they went to the intermodal terminal in Charlotte this day.

Peeking out from between the shadows cast by the bright fall foliage, GSMR 1702 skirts by Fontana Lake with a long train of passengers enjoying the excellent scenery.

Its bright smokebox shining in the afternoon sun, GSMR 1702 gallops down the jointed-rail, kudzu-lined Murphy Branch.

GSMR GP38-3 2668 and GP38-2 2335, built for the L&N and Frisco, respectively, ease the morning train to a stop at the Nantahala Outdoor Center, where passengers will have a short layover to check ... (more)

Looking exactly like a miniature version of Southern 2716, the GSMR's smartly-dressed Consolidation pulls a long train of tourists along Fontana Lake. Passengers will be delighted on this fall day... (more)

Norfolk & Western 620 pushes the excursion train uphill around the curve heading towards roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum

Lehigh Valley Coal Co 0-6-0 saddle tank engine #126, has the North Carolina Transportation Museum caboose train in tow.

Fall peak has arrived in western North Carolina as Great Smoky Mountains 2-8-0 #1702 heads west out of Bryson City with the railroad’s ever popular Nantahala Gorge Excursion.

For one day, to join N&W #611's return to the rails, famed #501 was dressed to play the part of an ACL locomotive on loan to the Norfolk & Western, replicating the 1958-59 period where such a thin... (more)

An ex-Waccamaw Coastline GP18 leads a passenger excursion pulling out of the small town of Conway, South Carolina in June 2004. The ancestry of this locomotive seems obvious as the Norfolk & Weste... (more)

Even though the days of pulling TOFC freight through the Rathole or dragging wood chip hoppers over the Old Fort loops is over, this venerable work horse still gets to clean the carbon out of its ... (more)

A critter sits at the South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 2007 along with other small locomotives and a few boxcars from various roads. The unit was built in 1946 and is... (more)

Visitors at the NC Transportation Museum pause to marvel at the 6133 rounds a curve heading back to Barber Junction.

Southern Crescent preparring to stop at Barber Junction

Southern 6133 sits at the depot at Barber Jct. at the North Carolina Transportation on a clear Winter day.