Passengers on the Southern Loops! It's hard to imagine the weather could have been any nicer for the North Carolina Transportation Museum's 2010 fall foliage excursions. This year's rare-milage trips were Spencer, NC to Roanoke, VA on Saturday, and Spencer to Asheville on Sunday via the Old Fort Loops. Here the train emerges from one of 7 tunnels on the ex-Southern Railway's climb of the Blue Ridge Mountains, curving through some peak fall color still hanging on to the valley's trees.
